gi
see also: GI
Pronunciation
GI
Adjective
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see also: GI
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡiː/
gi (plural gis)
- A martial arts uniform.
- 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage 2000, p. 108:
- By the time they got up to the reception building, there was a welcoming committee standing in the lamp-lined drive, all in black gi, headed by a tall, fit, scholarly-looking woman named Sister Rochelle […]
- 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage 2000, p. 108:
GI
Adjective
gi (not comparable)
- (military) Initialism of general issue Given to a soldier by the army (as an item), rather than brought from home; or used by the army (as a procedure), and different from its civilian counterpart.
- Soldiers counted cadence by chanting: “GI brush / And GI comb / Gee, I wish that I was home!”
- (medicine) Initialism of gastrointestinal
- I was queasy after my upper GI series, but it far outshone the lower one.
- (US) Initialism of government issue
- (US, military) Initialism of general infantry
- GI Joe.
gi
- A member of the U.S. military.
- One who is demanding and strict, in the manner of a stereotypical member of the military.
- Initialism of galvanized iron
- Initialism of geographical indication
- Initialism of glycemic index
- Misspelling of Gl, the prefix for Gliese catalog of nearby stars
gi (gis, present participle giing; past and past participle gied)
- (military) To clean aggressively.
- Top, get the unit to GI this AO before the old man arrives.
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