square-bashing

noun

1. slang.
   military drill on a barrack square

Example Sentences

Also all the slang, the “square-bashing” drilling exercises, and the boring meals and the uniforms, though Maddie’s group didn’t get issued proper uniforms at first.

From Literature

After some square-bashing, they lower their barrels and charge, bellowing “kill, kill, kill!”

From Economist

As a child and adolescent, Frederick suffered at the hands of his father Frederick William I, a bad-tempered, gouty despot nicknamed the “Soldier King” because of his fondness for square-bashing.

From BusinessWeek