noun General Slang

gizzit

· noun · military

A freebie scrounged or blagged off someone — 'give us it'.

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A freebie — a bit of kit, a souvenir, a sticker, a patch, a brew — blagged off someone for nothing. Comes straight from the slurred British plea 'give us it'. Especially common when a unit deploys somewhere new and starts collecting morale patches, lanyards and tat off the locals or allied forces.

“The Yanks were chucking gizzits about like sweets — patches, coins, the lot.”
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gizzit In A Sentence

The Yanks were chucking gizzits about like sweets — patches, coins, the lot.

Origin & Usage

British slang, contraction of 'give us it'. Adopted widely in the British Army for scrounged freebies.

Variants gizzitsgizit

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