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Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 26, 2011 gung-ho \GUHNG-HO\, adjective: 1. Wholeheartedly enthusiastic and loyal; eager; zealous. 2. In a successful manner. You end up becoming this perky, gung-ho version of yourself that you know is just revolting. -- Douglas Coupland, Microserfs It's not because he's such a gung-ho company man, he's too smart for that. -- Jonathan Franzen, Strong motion: a novel Gung ho introduced as a training slogan in 1942 by U.S. Marine officer Evans F. Carlson (1896-1947) from the Chinese chin gōng hé, the abbreviated name of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society, literally "work together." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help
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