Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
squaddy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During the Gulf War we'd be doing gigs and getting heckled by squaddies, for example.
▪ Startled squaddies received Abba tapes and videos from the would-be Santa Claus as he reassured them they were not forgotten.
▪ The squaddies had gathered round the body and peered at it as rain sluiced the shattered face.
▪ The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland.
▪ The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled, but no more than that.
▪ Undeterred, the band went sight-seeing around the various trouble spots, getting their pictures taken besides security gates and confused-looking squaddies.
Wiktionary
squaddy
n. (alternative spelling of squaddie English)
Usage examples of "squaddy".
Down along the waterside, the clubs and casinos and bars were opening for trade, trashy games and girls smiling with bright come-on calculation at the squaddies.
It was poor little teenage British squaddies who actually guarded the fence and got sung at.
The ruperts had an instant monk on because there were these naked squaddies lying on the grass in star shapes, farting and shouting at each other, giggling, pissed, and falling over.
It had been a rough nighta room in a pub full of drunken squaddies on embarkation leave.
Sometimes at night, when the women were having their lentils, the British squaddies would pile back from the pub all pissed up and chanting, ``Lesby, lesby, lesbiANS.