Air Cav

noun

-ˈkav 

: air cavalry

By nightfall the Air Cav had lifted the 2/320 Artillery into range of An Ninh.

—David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman, Brave Men, 1989

Word History

Etymology

by shortening

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

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