looie

Lieutenant.

Noun

  1. Lieutenant.
    • "Dress up that line there," one sergeant with three gold stripes shouted to his company of majors, second "looies," and privates. - 1920, Journal of the Fifty-Third National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic,...
    • […] any more than a second lieutenant in Fort Dix will have a direct involvement with the doings of Congress. Even the "employers" of the ISTs, the security council, should remain as distant from the characters as the...

Origin

Shortened lieutenant + -ie.

Forms

looies