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Chicken colonel

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of bird colonel. US, dated, slang

    "In 1944, when many of his West Point classmates—including Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower—had won general's stars, Van Fleet was still a chicken colonel commanding a regiment."

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