home guard
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Definition(s):
- (n) a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
Usage(s):
- The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements.
- When Asey finds out who slipped Lucia Newell a beaker of atropine under the beach umbrella, he really teaches the skirted home guard to shoot.
- Often a barrage caught Katanga's loyal whites of the home guard in mid-Scotch or mid-meal at an Elisabethville bistro.
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