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  • noun Plural form of shavetail.

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Examples

  • Captains Beverly S. Royster and Richard D. Dixon, who had been fellow "shavetails" in Battery A, succeeded Hanes and McLendon respectively.

    History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division 1920

  • As the Army's Chief of Staff's secretary she must be used to handling unruly young shavetails just as easily as she managed fussing old colonel generals.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

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