noun
General Slang
jarhead
· noun · military
A US Marine — from the high-and-tight haircut.
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Slang for a US Marine, originally from the high-and-tight regulation haircut that makes the head look like a Mason jar — shaved sides, flat lid on top. Some accounts trace it instead to the old high-collared dress blue uniform making the head look like it's sticking out of a jar. Used by Marines themselves, by other services (sometimes cheekily), and burned into pop culture by Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir 'Jarhead' and the Sam Mendes film.
“Twenty years a jarhead and he still squares away the corners of his bedsheets.”
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jarhead In A Sentence
Twenty years a jarhead and he still squares away the corners of his bedsheets.
Origin & Usage
Early 20th-century US military slang, popularised in WWII. Origin debated between the haircut and the dress-blues collar.
Variants
jarheads
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