suicide squad

English

Etymology

An allusion to the risk of injury.

Noun

suicide squad (plural suicide squads)

  1. (military slang) A unit assigned to a particularly risky task.
    Synonym: suicide club
  2. (American football, slang) Synonym of special team
    • 1971, LIFE, volume 71, number 23, page 3:
      The most violent men in pro football play on the suicide squads.

References
  • Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 109
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.