| 词条 | List of military slang terms |
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Military slang is a colloquial language used by and associated with members of various military forces. This page lists slang words or phrases that originate with military forces, are used exclusively by military personnel or are strongly associated with military organizations. Acronym slangA number of military slang terms are acronyms. These include SNAFU, SUSFU, FUBAR and similar terms used by various branches of the United States military during World War II. BOHICABOHICA (Bend Over, Here It Comes Again) is an item of acronym slang which grew to regular use amongst the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War.[1]{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}[2] It is used colloquially to indicate that an adverse situation is about to repeat itself, and that acquiescence is the wisest course of action. It is commonly understood as a reference to being sodomized. Although it originated in the United States military forces and is still commonly used by the United States Air Force fighter crew chiefs and armament crews{{Awkward|date=April 2019|reason=This makes no sense as written, the US Air Force is a US Military force}}, its usage has spread to civilian environments, used to describe unavoidable, unpleasant situations that have inconvenienced someone before and are about to yet again. FUBAR{{Distinguish|Foobar}}{{other uses|FUBAR (disambiguation)}}FUBAR (Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Any Repair/All Reason), like SNAFU and SUSFU, dates from World War II. The Oxford English Dictionary lists Yank, the Army Weekly magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: "The FUBAR squadron. ‥ FUBAR? It means 'Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition."[3]FUBUFUBU (Fucked/fouled Up Beyond all Understanding) was also used during World War II. SNAFU{{main|SNAFU}}SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar.[4] It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a normal state of affairs. It is typically used in a joking manner to describe something that is working as intended. The acronym is believed to have originated in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}} Time magazine used the term in their June 16, 1942 issue: "Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu."[5] Most reference works, including the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the United States Army. Rick Atkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR, and a bevy of other terms to cynical G.I.s ridiculing the Army's penchant for acronyms.[5]Private Snafu is the title character of a series of military instructional films, most of which were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf.[6]In modern usage, snafu is sometimes used as an interjection, though it is mostly now used as a noun. Snafu also sometimes refers to a bad situation, mistake, or cause of the trouble. It is more commonly used in modern vernacular to describe running into an error or problem that is large and unexpected. For example, in 2005, The New York Times published an article titled "Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu".[7] The attribution of SNAFU to the American military is not universally accepted: it has also been attributed to the British,[8] although the Oxford English Dictionary gives its origin and first recorded use as the U.S. military.[5] In a wider study of military slang, Frederick Elkin noted in 1946 that there "are a few acceptable substitutes, such as 'screw up' or 'mess up,' but these do not have the emphasis value of the obscene equivalent." He considered the expression SNAFU to be "a caricature of Army direction. The soldier resignedly accepts his own less responsible position and expresses his cynicism at the inefficiency of Army authority." He also noted that "the expression … is coming into general civilian use."[9] An Imperial FUAn Imperial FU (An Imperial Fuck Up) was used during World War I by soldiers of the outlying British Empire, e.g. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Kenya, Tanganyika, India, in reference to odd/conflicting orders from British authorities. Note that during World War I, the British Empire had an Imperial War Cabinet, and the troops from Australia were called the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), not to be confused with the AEF, the American Expeditionary Forces of WW I, or the Allied Expeditionary Force of WW II. SUSFUSUSFU (Situation Unchanged: Still Fucked Up) is closely related to SNAFU. SNAFU and SUSFU were first recorded in American Notes and Queries in their September 13, 1941 issue.[10]TARFUTARFU (Totally And Royally Fucked Up or Things Are Really Fucked Up) was also used during World War II. The 1944 U.S. Army animated shorts Three Brothers and Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu In The Navy (both directed by Friz Freleng), feature the characters Private Snafu, Private Fubar, and Seaman Tarfu (with a cameo by Bugs Bunny).[11][12] See also
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Crawford|first=Samuel C.|title=Brownwater III|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uez4wjhSi2IC&pg=PA419|accessdate=30 June 2013|year=2005|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-59926-451-6|page=419|chapter=Glossary}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Elvin|first=Mike|title=Financial Risk Taking: An Introduction to the Psychology of Trading and Behavioural Finance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORoNddcRNE4C|accessdate=30 June 2013|year=2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-02072-2}} 3. ^{{cite encyclopedia |year=2005 |title =fubar, adj. |encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary |edition=third |publisher=Oxford University Pres |location=Oxford}} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Neary|first=Lynn|title=Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat'| publisher=National Public Radio|quote= 'Situation Normal ... All Fouled Up,' as the first SNAFU animated cartoon put it|url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7651308|access-date=2008-01-08}} 5. ^{{Cite book |title=The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 |series=The Liberation Trilogy |first=Rick |last=Atkinson |year=2007 |publisher=Henry Holt |isbn=978-0-8050-6289-2}} 6. ^{{Cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00404.x|title=Children's Literature Goes to War: Dr. Seuss, P. D. Eastman, Munro Leaf, and the Private SNAFU Films (1943?46)|journal=The Journal of Popular Culture|volume=40|issue=3|pages=468|year=2007|last1=Nel|first1=Philip}} 7. ^{{cite news |title=Hospital Staff Cutback Blamed for Test Result Snafu |last=Santora |first=Marc |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/nyregion/19pap.html?scp=4&sq=snafu&st=cse |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 19, 2005 |access-date=29 March 2012}} 8. ^{{Cite book |title=Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk: Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful Users of the English Language |year=1995 |location=New York |publisher=Crown |first=Hugh |last=Rawson |isbn=978-0-517-70201-7}} 9. ^{{Citation| last= Elkin| first= Frederick| date=March 1946|title= The Soldier's Language| journal= American Journal of Sociology| volume= 51| issue= 5 Human Behavior in Military Society| publisher= The University of Chicago Press| pages= 414–422| jstor= 2771105}} 10. ^1 2 {{Cite book |title=A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary |editor=Burchfield, R.W. |volume=Volume IV Se-Z |year=1986 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon |isbn=978-0-19-861115-8}} 11. ^{{cite web|publisher = Internet Archive|title = Private Snafu – Three Brothers (1944)|url = https://archive.org/details/PrivateSnafu-ThreeBrothers1944|accessdate = 2011-03-22}} 12. ^{{cite web|author =Pietro Shakarian|title =Situation Normal All Fucked Up:A History of Private Snafu|work =goldenagecartoons.com|url =http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/miscelooneyous/snafu/|accessdate =2008-05-05|deadurl =yes|archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20080512092007/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/miscelooneyous/snafu/|archivedate =2008-05-12|df =}} 13. ^BOHICA Book, published 1987 Further reading
BOHICA by Scott Barnes published 1987[13] External links{{Wiktionary|SNAFU|FUBAR|BOHICA}}
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