(informal) A civilian; someone who is not in the military.
(informal) A civilian; someone who is not in the military.
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(prison slang) A manufactured cigarette, as opposed to a rollup.
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(chiefly, Britain, military, _, slang) The condition or status of a civilian; civilian life.
(military slang, pluralonly) clothes.
A civvies king is the ex-military or school-uniform veteran who absolutely nailed the transition to civilian dressing — the person whose street wardrobe is dialed in, whose fits actually work, and who nobody would guess spent years in a dress code. While plenty of people struggle to develop personal style after years of uniforms telling them what to wear, the civvies king did the work, absorbed the culture, and came out looking sharper than people who've had freedom of choice their whole lives.
A civvies check is the informal assessment — sometimes self-directed, sometimes imposed by peers — of whether someone's civilian wardrobe actually holds up outside of uniform. Military personnel, ex-forces, and boarding-school alumni who lived in dress codes know the panic: you have excellent discipline but zero fashion instincts. The civvies check exposes exactly that gap, calling out anyone who stepped back into the real world looking like they ordered their entire outfit from a promotional catalogue circa 2009.
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