cadet
kuh det
- n a military trainee (as at a military academy)
- A woman cadet works busily in her quarters, stopping to straighten her already drum-tight bunk.
- If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner.
- Under those grim stone turrets at West Point, buttoned-up, close-cropped cadets still "hup, two, three, four" in precision parades.