jody

plural jodies

1. A Jody call.

   I walked back to the dorm as my team ran by in formation singing a jody about their last day.

   2011, Mark Lauren with Joshua Clark, You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises, page 5

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   I watched the formation move away and listened to the PT leader begin to call out a "jody," an Army song to help units run in step in formation

   1995, James E. Kennedy, About face: a gay officer's account of how he stopped prosecuting ...

   Synonyms: Jody chant, Jody cadence, Jody call, jody call

alternative Jodi · alternative Jodie

1. A female given name from Hebrew.

alternative Jodi · alternative Jodie

1. A female given name from French.
2. A male given name from French.

plural Jodies · alternative Jodi · alternative Jodie

1. USslanggovernmentThe man who seduces a soldier or inmate's wife or girlfriend during his absence.

   “What is Jody? a Jody is the guy back home with your wife or your girlfriend. That is what a Jody is,” Harris explained.

   2008, Richard Engel, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq, page 298

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   Even today in the Marine Corps or the Army, one calls a jody, not a marching chant. For the trainee, Jody is the clever civilian who brutally divorces the soldier from the civilian world by appropriating all his possessions and loved ones. Ain't no use in callin home. Jody's on your telephone. Ain't no use in lookin' back. Jody's got your Cadillac. Ain't no use in goin' home. Jody's got your girl and gone. Ain't no use in feelin' blue. Jody's got your sister too.

   2004, Carol Burke, Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight, page 31