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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

furlough

\fer-LOH\, -noun.

Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.

"When the Colonel told me he was spending a 6-week furlough in his wife's vagina, at first I didn't take him literally..."

–verb (used with object) to grant a furlough to.

"I will furlough you, but only if you furlough me first." - an Equally Ranking Officer

1 Comments:

Blogger Dan McCoy said...

"He went AWOL so often, we started calling him 'Furloughnious Monk.'"

--Excerpt from The Ivory Trigger: War Years of the Jazz Pianists.

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