bashi-bazouk

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  1. A volunteer and irregular auxiliary, serving in connection with the Turkish army for maintenance, but without pay or uniform. Bashi-bazouks are generally mounted, and because unpaid frequently resort to pillage. They are also at the command of municipal governors, and when detailed to accompany travelers or expeditions through the country they expect not only to be “found,” but to be suitably rewarded with bakshish.

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  1. Turkish bashi-bozuq, one who is in no particular dress or uniform, an irregular soldier or civilian, from bashi, head, head-dress, dress and appearance, + bozuq, spoilt, disorderly, bad, from boz, spoil, damage, destroy.
 

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