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Shavetail

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer. US

    "Yass. I never got above the rank of shavetail. We were the dogfaces who gave ’em hell at Chateau Thierry."

Etymology

From shave + tail.

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