crunchie

ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi

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#1·2h ago

A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.

Origin: From crunchy. Use to refer to infantrymen in Vietnam is from their "crunching" through the jungle brush. Use to refer to white Afrikaners is perhaps from their supposed tendency to eat crunchy food. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·2h ago

(US, _, Vietnam era, _, military, _, slang, usually, in the plural) An infantry soldier, a grunt.

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#3·2h ago

(South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.

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