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50/50 girl n. He stands in the Hall of Flags in front of the young women selling charity raffle tickets—often called the “50-50 girls,” for the distribution of the raffle proceeds: half to the winner, half to charity. [English Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2009)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Well, we don’t know yet. I mean, that is—and again, we’re not going to apply the 6,000-mile screwdriver on that. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

6,000-mile screwdriver n. Military command-and-control systems are said to provide commanders with six-thousand-mile screwdrivers. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

60-day murder n. In some neighborhoods, people refer to “misdemeanor murders,” or “60-day murders,” the length of time suspects can be held without charges. [Lousiana New Orleans English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Feb. 5, 2007)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. Senior military officers referred to it as “the 7,000-mile screwdriver.” That was their way of describing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s penchant for micromanaging aspects of the Iraq War that interested him. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

7,000-mile screwdriver n. As I think most of you know from our efforts on the USS Cole, the chief of naval operations, secretary of the navy, both for good, legal reasons of not interfering with ongoing investigations from Washington, and for practical reasons of the difficulty of adjusting things with a 7,000-mile screwdriver, do not reach out into the midst of the investigation and pull back information prematurely. [English Military Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

709 ride n. The FAA was alerted, and looked things over, even though the incident did not meet the definition of an accident under Part 830 of the NTSB regs. The FAA inspector assigned required that the pilot take what is called a 709 ride. That’s a procedure under the regulations by which a pilot has to demonstrate his or her competence in an area of flight operations. [English Aviation Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2006)

767 v. His marital infidelity was considered by Boeing an act of corporate embarrassment, and Stonecipher was 767’d from the company. [English] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2005)

9/11 generation n. The lure of joining a volunteer fire department can be considerable for undergraduates, who as part of the 9/11 generation tend to hold firefighters in particularly high esteem. [ Language English] [full cite] (Sep. 28, 2005)

92-Mike n. The individuals who work at the depot are mortuary affairs specialists, referred to as “92-Mikes” in Army parlance. [English Military Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 23, 2006)

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