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    JOHNNY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    'Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniformsplay

    Synonyms:

    greyback; Johnny; Johnny Reb; Reb; Rebel

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("Johnny" is a kind of...):

    Confederate soldier (a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War)

    Domain usage:

    colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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