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zoomie en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈzuːmi/

Etymology

From zoom + -ie.

Meanings

  1. (attributive, form-of, not-comparable) Attributive form of zoomies (“frenzied running in a pet”).
    form of zoomies
    • zoomie hour

Relateds

zoomies

zoomie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈzuːmi/

Etymology

From zoom + -ie.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A graduate of, or student at, the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA.
    • The BX was huge, and the quality of the stuff was better than that of the Fort McClellan PX even though zoomies made the same amount of money that we did. 2007, John Sheppard, Tales of the Peacetime Army:
    • Then it's purely a coincidence that the last two zoomies to arrive here got assigned to Vung Tau, while every ROTC grad in the last month has been sent to god-awful Army camps, right? 2006, Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four, page 9:
    • Most of the zoomies in the audience are clean-shaven office poges who never go into the field. 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 39:
    • A zipper head (an air force zoomie with his hair parted in the middle) walked up to me. 2008, Rob Krott, Save the Last Bullet for Yourself, page 89:

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