Usually means: Inexperienced officer, newly commissioned, green.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. shavetail: Merriam-Webster
  2. shavetail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shavetail: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shavetail: Wiktionary
  5. shavetail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. shavetail: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. shavetail: Dictionary.com
  8. Shavetail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shavetail, shavetail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shavetail: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (US) An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer.

Similar:
tenderfoot, rookie, shaveling, freshling, apprentice, feather merchant, green hand, nugget, poodle-faker, split-tail, more...

Types:
second lieutenant, ensign, cadet, midshipman, sub-lieutenant, seaman, more...

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Similar:
tenderfoot, rookie, shaveling, freshling, apprentice, feather merchant, green hand, nugget, poodle-faker, split-tail, more...

Types:
second lieutenant, ensign, cadet, midshipman, sub-lieutenant, seaman, more...



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