"battle buddy" meaning in English

See battle buddy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: battle buddies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} battle buddy (plural battle buddies)
  1. (US, military) Another servicemember assigned to mutually help another under the battle buddy system, and by extension any comrade. Wikipedia link: battle buddy Tags: US Categories (topical): Military Related terms: brother-in-arms, comrade, blue falcon, battle
    Sense id: en-battle_buddy-en-noun-TWpSPrPP Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for battle buddy meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "battle buddies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "battle buddy (plural battle buddies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Yolanda Jones, Scarred, But Not Broken: My Personal Experience as a Single Mom, page 75",
          "text": "I didn't know why, but I cut through and took a shorter route and I happened to bump into my battle buddy (SSG). As I piece everything together, I remembered my battle buddy telling me that I was scaring him, because I had “that look”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Robert Brock, Turkey Mountain Boys: My Brother's Keeper, page 73",
          "text": "You don't do anything without your battle buddy. If your battle buddy does something stupid, you pay for it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Craig Volkin, The ultimate basic training guidebook: tips, tricks, and tactics, age 41",
          "text": "To teach you this lesson, your Drill Sergeants will assign you a battle buddy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Rod Powers, Basic Training for Dummies, page 172",
          "text": "In fact, the system works so well that the Army has expanded the battle buddy system to units other than basic training"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Another servicemember assigned to mutually help another under the battle buddy system, and by extension any comrade."
      ],
      "id": "en-battle_buddy-en-noun-TWpSPrPP",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "servicemember",
          "servicemember"
        ],
        [
          "buddy system",
          "buddy system"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, military) Another servicemember assigned to mutually help another under the battle buddy system, and by extension any comrade."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "brother-in-arms"
        },
        {
          "word": "comrade"
        },
        {
          "word": "blue falcon"
        },
        {
          "word": "battle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "battle buddy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "battle buddy"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "battle buddies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "battle buddy (plural battle buddies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "brother-in-arms"
    },
    {
      "word": "comrade"
    },
    {
      "word": "blue falcon"
    },
    {
      "word": "battle"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Yolanda Jones, Scarred, But Not Broken: My Personal Experience as a Single Mom, page 75",
          "text": "I didn't know why, but I cut through and took a shorter route and I happened to bump into my battle buddy (SSG). As I piece everything together, I remembered my battle buddy telling me that I was scaring him, because I had “that look”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Robert Brock, Turkey Mountain Boys: My Brother's Keeper, page 73",
          "text": "You don't do anything without your battle buddy. If your battle buddy does something stupid, you pay for it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Craig Volkin, The ultimate basic training guidebook: tips, tricks, and tactics, age 41",
          "text": "To teach you this lesson, your Drill Sergeants will assign you a battle buddy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Rod Powers, Basic Training for Dummies, page 172",
          "text": "In fact, the system works so well that the Army has expanded the battle buddy system to units other than basic training"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Another servicemember assigned to mutually help another under the battle buddy system, and by extension any comrade."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "servicemember",
          "servicemember"
        ],
        [
          "buddy system",
          "buddy system"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, military) Another servicemember assigned to mutually help another under the battle buddy system, and by extension any comrade."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "battle buddy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "battle buddy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.