GEO
n.— «We were actually thinking about moving back home, with my husband staying here as a GEO [geographic bachelor, a military term for a married soldier in an isolated base or deployment].» —“After the war, a struggle to survive” by Gerard Wright Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Dec. 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Louisiana listener shares a favorite passage from Laurie Lee’s memoir Cider with Rosie (Bookshop|Amazon), about his boyhood in post-World-War II England. An extract is here and contains the passage:“For the first time in my life I was out of the...
When there’s no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? Some people apply acronyms like YOYO — “you’re on your own” — or CORN, for “Clean Out your Refrigerator...