"posish" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /pəˈzɪʃ/ [UK] Forms: posishes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪʃ Etymology: Abbreviation of position. Head templates: {{en-noun}} posish (plural posishes)
  1. (colloquial, often military slang or sexual slang) Short for position. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial Alternative form of: position
    Sense id: en-posish-en-noun-LQKBq6n9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "He put on the remaining pair of gloves, and took a pugilistic \"posish\" that alarmed me.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’.\"",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "My favorite posish is doggystyle.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And feeling that it would do no harm to get his views on the Kipper situation, I unfolded the tale. “So you see the posish,” I concluded.",
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          "text": "\"Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’.\"",
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          "text": "The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.",
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          "text": "At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.",
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