dogface
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Noun
[edit]dogface (plural dogfaces)
- (US military, slang) A foot soldier, especially during World War II.
- 1962, Joseph Commings, “The X Street Murders”, in The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, published 2006:
- Yass. I never got above the rank of shavetail. We were the dogfaces who gave ’em hell at Chateau Thierry.
- (slang, derogatory) An ugly person.
- Either of two pierid butterflies of the New World genus Zerene.