What is Pogue?
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Derogatory phrase used by front-line infantry units to describe rear-support or staff units.
Screw those leg-ass pogues!
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Derogatory military slang used by front line troops to describe staff and other rear echelon or support units/troops
Buggerd pogue and his chief of staff. No I aint seen then out here busting there arse.
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.Orininally P.O.G ( Personnel other than Grunts). There are two types of pogues:
1) field pogues: These are the ones that give support to the grunts(infantry) in the field, like communications and transport.
2) office pogues: These are the office troops that sit on their arses in front of a computer with heat in the winter and ac in the summer. Also known as S.O.M.A ( sit on my arse). These are looked down by both, grunts and field pogues.
Field pogues sometimes become grunts because they go everywhere the grunts go, like the the Navy Corpsman or Marine Radio Operator.
" Do you have a combat action ribbon? you f*ing pogue !!
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Generally used to describe someone who is asserting to be something more than they really exist to be.
They might be a U.S. Marine, but this person works in an office and is not an actual field Marine; Office Pogue.
A person who is in the Marching Band and thinks he/she is cool doing it; Band Pogue.
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Derogatory term for the Irish. Possibly from Irish Gaelic "pogue mo thoin", meaning "kiss my arse". Could also refer to the Irish rock group The Pogues.
Go back to Ireland you fucking Pogue.
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Gaelic for 'KISS MY ARSE'.
slang term for a person of Irish descent.
the name of a great band, The Pogues, who wrote songs like 'A Pair of Brown Eyes', 'The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn', etc.
"Get that Pogue out of here, he's had enough to drink."
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Midwest term for slow-moving person, be it on foot or behind the wheel of a car.
"Fuckin' pogues hoggin' up the two-lane back roads always makin' me late!"
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