(US) Someone (of any gender) serving in the United States Navy.
It was a labor-intensive job for some of the personnelmen to enter the data into the computer system, but the payoff came in terms of retrieval.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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