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n. (alternative form of bird colonel English)
Usage examples of "full bird colonel".
If the bartender found it unusual that a full bird colonel in dress greens was drinking in the middle of the afternoon he didn't let on.
Then he saluted, trying to conceal his surprise at seeing a full bird colonel coming out of Clara's Cafe.
Handsome, articulate, an inspired commander and deadly hand-to-hand combatant, the full bird colonel was considered something of a glamour boy.
After a little more than half a year he was promoted to full bird colonel-interestingly, Mollen had become a two-star general just a few months before-and his pilot friends seized the opportunity to put on an elaborate celebration for him at the Officers' Club and in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters.
I can probably find Lakehurst all right, but it occurred to me that it would look a little odd to have a full bird colonel flying a mission like this.
Having a full bird colonel in command of a squadron was strange, but then a nine hundred man squadron was pretty weird, too.