zoomie

English

Etymology

From zoom +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzuːmi/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: zoom‧ie

Noun

zoomie (plural zoomies)

1. (military slang) A graduate of, or student at, the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA.
   • 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 39:

     Most of the zoomies in the audience are clean-shaven office poges who never go into the field.

   • 2006, Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four, page 9:

     Then it's purely a coincidence that the last two zoomies to arrive here got assigned to Vung Tau, while every ROTC grad in the last month has been sent to god-awful Army camps, right?

   • 2007, John Sheppard, Tales of the Peacetime Army:

     The BX was huge, and the quality of the stuff was better than that of the Fort McClellan PX even though zoomies made the same amount of money that we did.

   • 2008, Rob Krott, Save the Last Bullet for Yourself, page 89:

     A zipper head (an air force zoomie with his hair parted in the middle) walked up to me.

Adjective

zoomie (not comparable)

1. attributive form of zoomies (“frenzied running in a pet”)

   zoomie hour

See also

• zoomies