GI
pronunciation
How to pronounce GI in British English:
UK [ˌdʒi: ˈaɪ]
How to pronounce GI in American English:
US [ˌdʒi'aɪ]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to the stomach and intestines
Word Origin
- GI
- GI: [20] GI originated, around the beginning of the 20th century, as a US abbreviation of galvanized iron. It was soon in common use in the military, in contexts such as GI can, and the idea seems to have got about that it stood for not galvanized iron but government issue. This misconception propelled it into such combinations as GI shoe, GI soap and (facetiously) GI soldier. By the 1930s this had been shortened to simply GI, designating an enlisted man in the US Army.
Example
- 1. And when gi bleeding didn 't kill her .
- 2. The complacent assumption was that the films should easily influence the average gi .
- 3. When discharged from the hospital after a lower gi series , you get the gi bill .
- 4. Anastomosis of pancreatic cyst to gi tract direct internal drainage .
- 5. After the second world war the gi bill offered all returning soldiers the chance of higher education .