GI's

or G.I.'s, G.I.s.

[ jee-ahyz ]

noun

1. the GI's, Slang. diarrhea.

GIS

abbreviation for

1. geographic(al) information system: a system for storing, editing, and displaying geographical information on computer
2. in Canada guaranteed income supplement

GIS

1. Abbreviation of Geographic Information System

Word History and Origins

Origin of GI's¹

1960–65, Americanism; probably for GI shits; see GI, -s ³

Example Sentences

Im likes to say that his first language was English, because he and the neighborhood kids learned to chase after the American GIs from the base near his house, shouting “Hello, give me chocolate!”

From Los Angeles Times

More than 20,000 American GIs died in Vietnam after Nixon’s foreign policy interference led to the failure of the 1968 Paris peace talks.

From Salon

If you were Black and Korean in post-war in Korea, you had a really tough life, because there was racism against Koreans, both from American GIs and from Korean culture.

From Los Angeles Times

Eighty years ago, when American GIs were fighting fascism overseas, women were recruited in droves to work in shipyards and factories, where they filled all sorts of jobs traditionally held by men.

From Los Angeles Times

McMaster, told journalist Bari Weiss after the American GIs were killed in the withdrawal: “This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”

From Salon