zoomie

English

Etymology

zoom +‎ -ie

Noun

zoomie (plural zoomies)

  1. (military, slang) A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA.
    • 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.

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