Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. alternative spelling of gung ho.
Examples
“In my experience, however, most police officers are good-to-admirable people, with the exception that the gung-ho drug warriors are average-to-worse people.”
“• In Vermont, at Orchard Elementary School in South Burlington, Principal Mark Trifilio reports kids are gung-ho to get outside — even if it's snowing and 10 degrees.”
USA Today: Too cold for recess? School policies vary as much as temps
“She was a live wire and was genuinely gung-ho about life.”
“That's what the federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is calling the Harmonized Sales Tax, at least for now -- while fellow Liberal Dalton McGuinty is gung-ho to introduce it here in Ontario.”
“Besides the inevitable support for the cause from milbloggers who have a stake in the mission, an ever-decreasing number of gung-ho civilian apologists for the doomed cause, like Terry Glavin and the vulgar puppet show known as the "Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee," are grasping at fewer and fewer straws.”
“Let the jump-off from South America stand by his side, since he was so gung-ho to disappear just to see her.”
“Now I know it's really easy to get all gung-ho excited about this bread ... there is something very luxurious about working the chocolatey, creamy spread into the supple but deceivingly wholesome dough!”
“With that gung-ho spirit I headed over to the dojo or whatever they call places that hold yoga classes.”
“He has at least avoided a gung-ho American chauvinism about Egypt and Iraq.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Madrick: The Tragedy of Defensive Politics
“So when we do a story about sailors on an aircraft carrier that is flying missions over Afghanistan in the early months of the war on terror, we didn't only go for the heroic gung-ho men and women who are traveling in harm's way, we go for what it is actually like for the majority of the people there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gung-ho’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
iceberg, fjord, firth, abbey, abyss, anorak, apartheid, assassin, avalanche, avocado, balaclava, banana and 104 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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Hyphenated Actual Words
These kind of stun me whenever I see them. Language is just so cool.
chuck-will's-widow, will-o-the-wisp, saw-whet, topsy-turvy, linsey-woolsey, ne'er-do-well, gung-ho, so-so, cul-de-sac, fleur-de-lys, service-berry, major-domo and 33 more...
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Colbert Intro
bigness, courage, eager-beaver, fearlessness, gerry-mandering, good marksmanship, integrity, prestige, savage pride, megamerican, actionable, anti-phlegmatic and 33 more...
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malpitte, marshmellow, beneuk, doohickey, cara mia, fluke, blot, philosoraptor, kiki kannibal, duplo, whambulance, henchmen and 62 more...
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Nick nacks
I started a list on the Wordie with a different log-in and now I can't find it. Sigh. So I'm starting again. These are monosyllabic double barrels that I like the sound of. Part of our human instin...
riff-raff, ping-pong, hip-hop, flim-flam, op cit, tip-top, mish-mash, flap-dash, nick-nack, lap-top, can-can, slap-dash and 60 more...
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mcarrick's Words
niggardly, crack, thrice, wildebeast, extrude, expressive, ignorant, gung-ho, camp, misbegotten, inexactitude, caliber and 7 more...
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toegar's Words
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oroboros The abbreviated name of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society, Chin g�?ng hé, taken by a literal translation as “work together�?
Origin: introduced as a training slogan in 1942 by U.S. Marine officer Evans F. Carlson (1896–1947) Apr 20, 2007