half-colonel

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half-colonel

noun half-colonels

UK, colloquial lieutenant colonel 'Yep. Lieutenant one day; major by the end of the week: lieutenant-colonel the week after. That's what it's like.' He snuffed down his nose in self-contempt. 'The office in Cairo is full of bogus half-colonels like me.'

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@misc{half_colonel_2026,
  title = {half-colonel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/half-colonel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}