demob n.
demobilization from the armed forces.
Diaries 4 Sept. 14: Maj. Hills gave me special demob letter to show in H.K. | ||
Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 115: Dave was sent to the BLA six months before demob. | ||
(con. 1947) I’m Talking About Jerusalem I ii: I was married once. God knows how it happened – just after demob. | ||
All Bull 68: Bob’s departure on leave too was commemorated [...] and so was his demob. | ||
(con. 1940s) Second From Last in the Sack Race 92: They hadn’t realised that his swift demob had been on medical grounds. | ||
Indep. Rev. 25 Nov. 12: I was [...] a lecturer in fine arts in the ‘demob’ college, for soldiers who were about to enter civilian life. | ||
Birthday 174: After demob he never wore a hat again. |
In compounds
excited at the prospect of being released from a long-term, usu. tedious job.
Inside the Treasury 138: Demob Happy The politics of 1978 were deeply influenced by the prospect of a General Election. | ||
Television 13: Obviously demob-happy at the end of his period of office at Channel 4 [etc.]. | ||
Guardian 17 Jul. 🌐 Question time today was hot and noisy. It was the last of the summer season, and MPs were behaving like schoolboys at the end of term. Many of them will be getting out their buckets and spades in the next few days, and some looked demob happy at the prospect. | ||
Man of the Month Club 60: The hollow feeling was subsiding, squashed out by the fug of beer and the jollity of the Friday evening demob-happy crowd. | ||
All the Colours 55: ‘Anyway, we’re not all demob happy. Some of us have our work to go to’. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 678: The pigs [...] went in search of liberty and scran, trotted down Temegate with a demob-happy swagger. |
the suit issued to discharged men on their quitting the services.
Bitten by the Tarantula (2005) 212: A seedy young man in a frayed collar and a shiny demob suit. | ‘The Dark Diceman’ in||
All Bull 2: The 1948 National Service Acts [...] did away with demob suits and gratuities. | ||
(con. 1940s) Second From Last in the Sack Race 92: His demob suit hanging off him like wool on a dying sheep. | ||
(con. 1940s) One Bright Child 81: This is my demob suit, my only suit. | ||
Birthday 18: A young soldier in his early twenties, he queued to be measured for his demob suit. | ||
All the Colours 68: Orchardton’s dad had come over [...] in 1946 with a suitcase and a demob suit. |