warhero

plural warheroes

1. alternativeAlternative form of war hero.

   I saw him playing with that warhero gun, talking about loving life and nature.

   1974, Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, page 60

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   Here we find a story of a real warhero interwoven with scriptural text just to raise the religious spirit of warriors [unintelligible], as well as among the farmers.

   1973, Homi R. Bana, A Study of Tir Yasht, page 38

   I said—I ain't no fucking warhero. I said—nobody shot my hand off, goddamnit.

   1978, John A. Gould, The Greenleaf Fires, page 207

   Thomas Hardwick, a bachelor, a warhero and a scholar, had adopted a tiny, helpless infant he had found while fighting in the desert.

   1989, Aviva Hellman, To Touch a Dream, page 210

   Then the warhero, Wiglaf, ordered many of the fightingmen, faithful comrades, who were householders, that they heap up wood, fetched from afar, for the folk chieftain, for their hero-king.

   2010, Ruth P.M. Legmann, Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, page 104

   Major Hengist Agnew, warhero and second son of the Earl of Loghaire, unwittingly deceives the London Regency Ton by taking his brother Lord Philip Morvern's place at important events and even in his marital bed.

   2015, C. Hampton Jones, A Major in Distress, Part 2: Death's Sting