barracks lawyer

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Noun

barracks lawyer (plural barracks lawyers)

  1. (military slang) A know-it-all.
    • 1912 September, Clarence L. Cullen, “The Hangman and Pedro Salazar”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume XLVII, number 6, page 944, column 1:
      "'Life?' Do you call this 'life,' you barracks lawyer?" he growled in his bronzed Adam's apple.