green army

English

Noun

green army (plural green armies)

  1. (UK, military slang) The regular army, not including any special forces.
    • 1998, Catherine Jones, Sisters In Arms, →ISBN:
      'We'll get the green army to keep an eye on the place, make sure there's not too much activity while our backs are turned,' said the ops officer.
    • 2014, James Rennie, The Operators, Pen and Sword, →ISBN:
      Roger that. Feds and green army are blue lighting to you.
    • 2014, Josef Black, SAS Special Operations Force (The Blades; 1), NYXZU Digital Press, →ISBN:
      Frodsham and his guard fell in alongside Tiger and Mack, Mack flicked the safety off his L85; an unreliable piece of crap that the green army troopers hated, and the SAS had replaced with M16's and then C8 SFW carbines.
  2. (historical, Russian Civil War, 1917-1923) Any of various armies of nonideological fighters who fought mainly just to keep both the Reds and the Whites from brutalizing their home regions.

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