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For example, in 2005, The New York Times published an article titled "Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu". [8] The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British, [9] although the Oxford English Dictionary gives its origin and first recorded use as the U.S ...
The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British, [6] although the Oxford English Dictionary gives its origin and first recorded use as U.S. military slang. [5]
Military slang is an array of colloquial terminology used commonly by military personnel, including slang which is unique to or originates with the armed forces.In English-speaking countries, it often takes the form of abbreviations/acronyms or derivations of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, or otherwise incorporates aspects of formal military terms and concepts.
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
(vulgar, though possibly not in origin) error, mistake, SNAFU. See also cock-up. (US: fuck up, screw up, mess up) BAME refers to people who are not white; acronym of "black, Asian, and minority ethnic" [18] [19] (US: BIPOC) bank holiday a statutory holiday when banks and most businesses are closed [20] (national holiday; state holiday in U.S.) bap
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At a barber shop, Snafu receives a haircut and a manicure. He can not resist sharing military information with the barber and the manicurist. The narrator makes the point that skywriting the information would be no more effective in making it public. [2] The final scene starts at Snafu's home, where he and his girlfriend dance the jitterbug.