zipperhead
Meanings
Plural: zipperheads
Noun
- A soldier in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps or in the Armoured Crewman military trade.
- A person of East Asian descent.
Origin / Etymology
From zipper + head. From the leather helmets formerly used by early Canadian armoured crewmen, with a pattern of stitching resembling a zipper. There is also a folk etymology referring to the zippers on armoured-vehicle crew suits (repurposed flight suits).
Synonyms
almond eyes, armoured crewman, armoured soldier, chicken lips, crewman, dink, gook, slant eye, slopehead, tanker, tread-head, treadhead, trooper, zipperlid
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