ANZAC

alternative Anzac

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

plural ANZACs · alternative Anzac

1. historicalgovernmentA soldier from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (1914-1918).
2. historicalgovernmentThe site of the landing by Anzac troops on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, in WWI; Anzac Cove.

   After a voyage which lasted a couple of days, we arrived at the island of Imbros, some ten miles from Anzac.

   1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 111

1. Alternative letter-case form of ANZAC.

   At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold.

   2005, Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves, page 43

2. A hamlet in northern Alberta.

plural Anzacs

1. Alternative letter-case form of ANZAC (“type of soldier”).

   The Anzacs were pretty drunk, and one of them was saying the Armistice was probably just another bloody piece of lying propaganda

   1932, John Dos Passos, 1919, Houghton Mifflin Company 2000, page 233

2. abbreviationcolloquialShort for Anzac biscuit