zipperhead.
A soldier in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps or in the Armoured Crewman military trade.
Meaning & usage
A soldier in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps or in the Armoured Crewman military trade.
Where this word comes from
From zipper + head, in reference to the leather helmets used by early Canadian armoured crewmen, which had zipper-like stitching.
A person of East Asian descent.
Where this word comes from
Coined by US soldiers during the Vietnam War, apparently from zipper + head. The semantic motivation is unclear. One theory is that the Vietnamese were so called because their heads would split open in zipper-like fashion if they were shot in the right way; another is that zipper-like tracks would be left on them if they were run over by jeeps or tanks.
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