war baby (English, noun)
expansion: war baby (plural war babies)
Senses:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An officer owing his position to the need of the time rather than competence.
tags: US
World-War-I
slang
glosses: Synonym of war child (“child born to a local parent and a parent belonging to a (usually occupying) foreign military force”)
Forms:
form: war babies
tags: plural
form: war-baby
tags: alternative