Meaning of looie | Babel Free

Definitions

Lieutenant.

informal

Examples

“"Dress up that line there," one sergeant with three gold stripes shouted to his company of majors, second "looies," and privates.”

“[…] any more than a second lieutenant in Fort Dix will have a direct involvement with the doings of Congress. Even the "employers" of the ISTs, the security council, should remain as distant from the characters as the Joint Chiefs of Staff are from that second looie.”

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