sarge

American  

[sahrj] / sɑrdʒ /

noun

Informal.

1. sergeant.

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sarge British  

/ sɑːdʒ /

noun

1. informal sergeant: used esp as a term of address

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Etymology

Origin of sarge

By shortening and respelling

Example Sentences

To a man and woman, the soldiers are types--the hard-bitten sarge, the college kid, the greenhorn, the choirboy--whom the pilot introduces with the inexcusably hackneyed device of having them explain their colorful nicknames.

From Time Magazine Archive

They realize only too well that without the sarge the preparation of the B-52 for combat will be seriously delayed, and without the B-52 ...

From Time Magazine Archive

I told the sarge that we were merely "flower children."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not having touched a teleprinter for a couple of years I said, �It�s no use, sarge, I�ll fail, it�s a waste of time.���

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John

"The sarge is a scrapper—few like him in 'ours' when he turns himself loose," supplemented Slosson.

From Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)