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top sergeant
noun
, Military Slang.
- a first sergeant.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of top sergeant1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
The Deacon was cut out for handling men, and was winning the name of an unusually efficient top-sergeant.
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His top-sergeant had seen to that, even though the soldier had surreptitiously sought to slip a revolver inside his army shirt.
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Top-Sergeant Peter Spooner glanced at that scowl, and a faint frown crossed his own features.
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Our top-sergeant was scoring badly at six hundred yards, and the lieutenant said, “Let me try your gun.”
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Roused by a smart shower, I heard Taps blown, and the top sergeant going up and down the street.
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