blue shirt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Alaska State Trooper.
noun
A sailor who works on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, securing aircraft to the deck.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, shirt.
noun
Alternative form of blue shirt.
Example Sentences
- "The divisions overlap at some points, like Soldotna and Anchor Point -- blue shirts handling criminal and traffic complaints, brown shirts sticking to more mission-related issues -- but in Cordova the wildlife troopers cover all law enforcement that falls under the state's jurisdiction."
- "“Frankly, I never thought of the brown shirts when I asked the blue shirts to attend this meeting,” Commissioner Burton admitted, “but you're right. If we are going to get a hint of something bad going on in the back country, these are the guys most likely to sniff it out...""
- "Blue shirts are responsible for handling and securing squadron aircraft with chocks and chains. Although their work is mostly manual and considered the low end of the totem pole, the success of flight operations depends on it."
- "Then, out of the comer of my eye, I saw a blue shirt get blown down the flight deck."
- "Just give me Georgie, Bartman and a couple blue shirts and we'll lock it down."
- "If a prosecutor argues a case in which a blue-shirt was murdered on the job, attacks on a rescuer may be a factor in seeking the death penalty."
Usage
- American usage