"butter bar" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-butter bar.wav Forms: butter bars [plural]
Etymology: Derived from the insignia of an O-1 in the US Military, which consists of a single yellow bar. Head templates: {{en-noun}} butter bar (plural butter bars)
  1. (US Air Force, US Army, US Marines, slang) A second lieutenant. Tags: slang Translations (Second Lieutenant): vänskä (english: air force) [army, military, war, government, politics] (Finnish), aliluti [navy, military, war, government, politics] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-butter_bar-en-noun-~CjkbISZ Disambiguation of 'Second Lieutenant': 97 3
  2. (US Navy, US Coast Guard, slang) An ensign. Tags: Navy, US, slang
    Sense id: en-butter_bar-en-noun-m06mrygx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 41 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: butterbar

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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