adjective
General Slang
gung-ho
· adjective · military
Over-the-top eager, zealous, all-in — often more than the situation calls for.
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Wildly enthusiastic, all-in, charging at it. Started as a sincere teamwork ethos under Carlson's Raiders — work together, fight together. Civilian English flipped it slightly: now it usually means a little too keen, a little too ready to volunteer.
“Don't be so gung-ho about overtime — they'll have you doing it every weekend.”
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gung-ho In A Sentence
Don't be so gung-ho about overtime — they'll have you doing it every weekend.
Origin & Usage
From Mandarin gōnghé (工合), shorthand for the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Lt Col Evans Carlson picked it up while observing the Eighth Route Army in China and adopted it as the motto of Carlson's Raiders in WWII, meaning 'work together'.
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