noun General Slang

civvies

· noun · military

Civilian clothes — anything that isn't a uniform.

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Whatever you wear when you're off duty and out of uniform. Jeans, a hoodie, trainers — anything that doesn't have your name tape on it. Brit and Commonwealth forces use it constantly; Americans say it too. Also gets stretched to mean civilians themselves ('the civvies won't get it').

“Soon as I'm off base I'm changing into civvies and finding a pub.”
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civvies In A Sentence

Soon as I'm off base I'm changing into civvies and finding a pub.

Origin & Usage

Variants civiescivvy

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