green girl

noun

The green sleeping-blanket issued to cadets at a military academy.

Meanings

noungreen girl (plural green girls)

plural green girls

  1. USslanggovernmentThe green sleeping-blanket issued to cadets at a military academy.

    Several decades ago […] , cadets would pack picnics and their "green girls" in typewriter cases for a private dinner with a favorite female friend.

    2007, Maureen Oehler DuRant, Peter E. Carroll, West Point (page 92)
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