blue job

English

Etymology

From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (“thing”).

Noun

blue job (plural blue jobs)

  1. (UK, air force slang, dated) A member of the air force.
    Synonym: boy in blue
    Coordinate term: brown job
    • 2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38:
      Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
    • 2014, Preller Geldenhuys, Rhodesian Air Force Operations, page 224:
      As Blue Jobs we had to walk behind the sweep line, probably because we would have been a liability had there been a scene. We hadn't quite reached the camp area when we heard the sound of Ray's chopper.
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