Gung-Ho
Gung-Ho, as it used in marine barracks, is a sarcasm and means about the same thing that eager-beaver used to mean in the Army before the EB's got promoted to butt smoochers.
When one marine says another is gung-ho he is not being very nice but the corps never has taken the trouble to correct the public impression, that among marines, gung-ho is synonymous with espirit de corps. The marines haven't taken the trouble to straighten out the Chinese on the matter, either. The Chinese still think that gung-ho means "work together."
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