rock happy
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æpi
Adjective
rock happy (comparative more rock happy, superlative most rock happy)
- (US, military, slang) eccentric or crazy as a result of spending a long time on a remote island
- 2008, George Lowe, The Hard, Hard Life of George A. Lowe, page 75:
- The civilian ground crew was rock happy. […] They were screaming at each other. Foul. Abusive. Bloodthirsty. It's what happens to men who take stupid jobs in miserable locations just for the money.
- 2016, Bruce M. Petty, Saipan: Oral Histories of the Pacific War, page 150:
- After fifteen months most of us were rock happy and would have done anything to get out of there, even if it meant invading Japan.
See also
- Asiatic
- pineapple head
- space-happy
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