hey you order
n.— «As the planned one-hour mission dragged into a second hour, the soldiers piled into their Strykers and headed back to base for lunch. They said they have another name for fragos—they call them “hey, you” orders, as in, “Hey, you, go check this out.”» —“Deuce Four’s many hats” by Matt Misterek in Mosul, Iraq News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) June 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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