Definitions
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- noun UK, slang A form of
military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected to frequent uniform inspections. - noun
defaulters
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Examples
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The "jankers" or defaulters 'squad was always rather large; but the "jankers men" were offenders against minor points in discipline.
Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919
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"jankers," or great two-wheeled wagons for the transport of trees out of the woods.
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The point of the 'wheeze' is in the fact that as defaulters are chaps doing jankers (Anglice -- punishment) they are hardly likely to get any extra milk dished out to them.
War and the Weird Forbes Phillips 1891
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It is perhaps no surprise that potato peeling was a classic punishment for those on jankers in the Army.
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We had our weapons confiscated and spent the next 3 days on jankers in the cookhouse.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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And indeed it was not difficult to see his father there, reveille to Last Post, at spit and polish, jankers and Queen’s Regulations, counting in his quartermaster-sergeant’s English: boots, leather, pairs of, three.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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And indeed it was not difficult to see his father there, reveille to Last Post, at spit and polish, jankers and Queen’s Regulations, counting in his quartermaster-sergeant’s English: boots, leather, pairs of, three.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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