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- adjective Alternative spelling of
gung ho .
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Examples
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With that gung-ho spirit I headed over to the dojo or whatever they call places that hold yoga classes.
Max Fox: Max Tries Yoga Max Fox 2011
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He has at least avoided a gung-ho American chauvinism about Egypt and Iraq.
Jeff Madrick: The Tragedy of Defensive Politics Jeff Madrick 2011
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Besides the inevitable support for the cause from milbloggers who have a stake in the mission, an ever-decreasing number of gung-ho civilian apologists for the doomed cause, like Terry Glavin and the vulgar puppet show known as the "Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee," are grasping at fewer and fewer straws.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Now I know it's really easy to get all gung-ho excited about this bread ... there is something very luxurious about working the chocolatey, creamy spread into the supple but deceivingly wholesome dough!
Archive 2009-09-01 Sarah 2009
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Let the jump-off from South America stand by his side, since he was so gung-ho to disappear just to see her.
Borger: Jenny Sanford becomes the new political paradigm 2009
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That's what the federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is calling the Harmonized Sales Tax, at least for now -- while fellow Liberal Dalton McGuinty is gung-ho to introduce it here in Ontario.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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• In Vermont, at Orchard Elementary School in South Burlington, Principal Mark Trifilio reports kids are gung-ho to get outside — even if it's snowing and 10 degrees.
Too cold for recess? School policies vary as much as temps 2011
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In my experience, however, most police officers are good-to-admirable people, with the exception that the gung-ho drug warriors are average-to-worse people.
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She was a live wire and was genuinely gung-ho about life.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Now I know it's really easy to get all gung-ho excited about this bread ... there is something very luxurious about working the chocolatey, creamy spread into the supple but deceivingly wholesome dough!
It's Baaack! Sarah 2009
oroboros commented on the word gung-ho
The abbreviated name of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society, Chin g�?ng hé, taken by a literal translation as “work together�?
Origin: introduced as a training slogan in 1942 by U.S. Marine officer Evans F. Carlson (1896–1947)
April 20, 2007