Meanings
plural looies
- informalLieutenant.
"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, Government Printing Office, page 901 more example
[…] 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 Joint Chiefs of Staff are from that second looie.
1991, Robert W. Schroeck, GURPS Supers: I.S.T., Steve Jackson Games, →ISBN, page 5
Origin
Shortened lieutenant + -ie.
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