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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Sammy

British slang for "U.S. soldier in World War I," 1918, a reference to Uncle Sam.A Sammie may be defined as an American soldier as he appears in an English newspaper or a French cinema. It is a name he did not invent, does not like, never uses and will not recognize. ["Stars & Stripes," March 29, 1918]

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Sammy

Sammy is a nickname, frequently for people named Samuel, and also an English spelling of the Arabic name Sami.

Sammy (disambiguation)

Sammy is a nickname.

It may also refer to:

  • Sammy Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of games and a subsidiary of Sega Sammy
  • Sammy (comics), a Belgian comics series which began in 1970
  • Sammy (band), the 1994-1996 partnership of guitarist Luke Wood and guitarist/vocalist Jesse Hartman
  • Sammy (TV series), a short-lived 2000 American animated television series
  • Darren Sammy (born 1983), Saint Lucian cricketer
  • Jasmine Sammy, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer in the 1970s
  • DJ Sammy, stage name of Spanish DJ and producer Samuel Bouriah (born 1969)
  • Sigma Alpha Mu, a college fraternity also known as "Sammy"
Sammy (band)

Sammy was the partnership of guitarist Luke Wood and guitarist/vocalist Jesse Hartman. The band was initially signed to Smells Like Records, the label owned by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. Later the band signed to DGC/ Geffen. The band was signed to Fire Records in the UK and Europe.

The band released two albums, an EP, and multiple singles before calling it quits. Debut Album (issued in 1994) and Kings of the Island Empire (an EP issued in 1995) were both put out by Smells Like Records. Their second and final full-length, Tales of Great Neck Glory, which was issued by DGC/ Geffen, followed in 1996 shortly before the band decided to split up.

Sammy (comics)

Sammy is a popular humour Belgian comics series. It first started in 1970 in the weekly comic Spirou magazine, it has been published in book form, and even been the subject of several omnibus editions by Dupuis. Raoul Cauvin wrote the series while artist Berck (aka Arthur Berckmans) drew the first thirty or so adventures before being succeeded by Jean-Pol (aka Jean-Pol Van Den Broeck).

Set mainly in 1920s Chicago, the series centres on freelance bodyguards Jack Attaway and his sidekick Sammy Day. Their assignments have them protecting people from all walks of life, from young children to celebrities, fighting gangsters both at home and abroad and even facing elements of fantasy and science-fiction. The real-life gangster Al Capone and his sworn enemy Eliot Ness of the " Untouchables" are also regular characters. Although occasionally violent, the emphasis of the series is on humour.

The 40th book in the series was published in 2009 and it was announced that it would be Sammy's final adventure.

Sammy (TV series)

Sammy is an American animated television series that aired from August 8 until August 15, 2000.

Usage examples of "sammy".

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No LOCOMOTIVE WILL ride the steel tracks that Berel Jastrow, Sammy Mutterperl, and the other Jews of Kommando 1005 are handling, nor will the heavy wooden ties piled nearby support the weight of rolling trains.

Sammy had reassured Joe, however, that it was not disgust at the violence portrayed but at the awareness, always for some reason painful to Anapol, of how big the latest Escapist donnybrook was going to go over with the remarkably bloodthirsty children of America.

Anapol and Ashkenazy, when it was he and Sammy who had invented the Escapist and were doing all the work of bringing him to life.

Sammy chased after it with a broom in one hand and a handbook of lepidoptery in the other.

If he had remained where Sammy Jay had found him, the hunter might have come within shooting distance before Lightfoot could have located him.

Back in Bensonhurst, Sammy returned to robbing with the Rampers, hanging out at their favorite corner luncheonette at 79th Street and Utrecht Avenue.

Sammy flopped down by the pouffe and Will plonked himself down beside him.

Someone as suitable for him as Sesame was for Soufflé, or Claire for Sammy.

For all of his desire to wrap himself in the mantle of a successful businessman, Castellano still commanded a huge army of stone killers like Tommy Bilotti, Frank DeCicco, Roy DeMeo, Nino Gaggi, a violent Irish gang called the Westies in Manhattan that Castellano used for off-the-record hits--and, of course, Sammy Gravano.

The head of the Westies had come to Sammy and told him that he knew someone on the jury who was available for a price.

Sammy killing Sammy was how I figured it, because the only person capable of kevorking a drugged mesomorphic maniac like Crespo would be another drugged mesomorphic maniac.

Here he had come upon the unlikely sight of two men, each wearing, with the overdetermination of a dream, a necktie and a mustache, embracing, their mustaches interlocked in a way that had reminded Sammy, for some reason, of the way his mother used to fit his comb into the bristles of the brush on top of his dresser when he was a kid.

And they can see the closeness of Frankie DeCicco, Sammy the Bull, Joe Piney, Joe Gallo.