blue shirt

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blue shirt^¹

noun blue shirts

An Alaska State Trooper. The divisions overlap at some points, like Soldotna and Anchor Point -- blue shirts handling criminal and traffic complaints, brown shirts sticking to more mission-related issues -- but in Cordova the wildlife troopers cover all law enforcement that falls under the state's jurisdiction.
A sailor who works on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, securing aircraft to the deck. Blue shirts are responsible for handling and securing squadron aircraft with chocks and chains. Although their work is mostly manual and considered the low end of the totem pole, the success of flight operations depends on it.
US An emergency medical service worker; a paramedic. If a prosecutor argues a case in which a blue-shirt was murdered on the job, attacks on a rescuer may be a factor in seeking the death penalty.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, shirt.

Blue Shirt^²

noun Blue Shirts

alternative Alternative form of blue shirt At this time, the pilot watched the chock and tie-down on the starboard landing gear being removed by a Blue Shirt.

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@misc{blue_shirt_2026,
  title = {blue shirt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blue%20shirt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}