Green Beret
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5.1
- noun
- /ɡriːn bəˈreɪ/
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- During the mission, the Green Berets executed their operations with precision and stealth.
The very last guy was a green Beret, a little little tough guy.
- The very last guy was a green Beret, a little little tough guy.
- Scott Mann, retired Lieutenant Colonel Green Beret out of Special Forces.
- So we call it either SF or a Green Beret kind of synonymous, right.
- And then we're running missions with Green Berets.
- So think Rangers, think Green Berets, think Seals, think of things you see in the movies.
- And then my buddy called me, my buddy Jerry, amazing Green Beret.
- And, and then I called a congressman that was also that's also a Green Beret and a couple other folks.
- My, my uncle started the Navy Seals and he allowed the, the grid, the Pentagon wanted to take the beret away from the Green Berets.
- We came in and we took the lawyers out of the way of the Green Berets and SOCOM and they five months later, the caliphate was gone.
- No, like you and I, people who have had to work hard, fight hard, The reason the Green Beret is so well respected is so because it's so fucking hard to achieve.
- When the first helicopters with it, that ODA came in, Green Beret ODA came in.
- You just went in to collect the bodies and he's like no Green Beret clown.
- So I was a Navy SEAL team Green Beret.
- Well, what So always sort of like tell it that the the train ranks that have got Green Berets, they're like, God, you look at them and you're like, I want that.
Examples
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With the captain leading, the Green Berets rushed in.
Fiction book (1994) -
Stacey looks like a typical young Green Beret captain, a hard charger, tough, mean, and lean.
Fiction book (1995) -
The very last guy was a green Beret, a little little tough guy.
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I was a Green Beret in Special Forces.
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Did you get to work with the Americans, with the Green Berets?
Fiction book (1996) -
And next to him, Greg, who was a Green Beret in the Army Special Forces.
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From each vehicle, twenty men descended quietly, Green Berets who knew what they were doing.
Fiction book (1994) -
My reason for volunteering for the Green Berets was simple: I wanted to effect change where it is needed most urgently.
Fiction book (2000) -
- He’s also a former Green Beret.
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The Green Berets were deployed to assist in the humanitarian crisis following the natural disaster.
Synonyms
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6.3
A soldier trained to attack quickly and secretly behind enemy lines
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7.2
A soldier trained to make quick surprise attacks behind enemy lines
Surface Forms
Morphology
Green + beret
The words 'green' and 'beret' transparently describe a green-colored hat, so a learner will grasp the literal image, but the conventionalized capitalized term 'Green Beret' specifically denotes a US Army Special Forces member — a cultural/organizational meaning not predictable from the parts alone. Because the phrase combines a clear literal component with a specialized, language-specific referent that requires cultural knowledge, it is only partially predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Green Beret comes from the green hat soldiers wear — the green beret. Seeing that hat showed someone belonged to a small, specially trained group, so the name came to mean 'a member of the Special Forces'.