militaristic



aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, combative, contentious, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, hostile, inimical, martial,

   octennial - anniversary, bicentennial, biennial, birthday, centennial, commemoration, jubilee, leap year, name day, natal day, sesquicentennial, tercentenary, triennial ,

   justifiably - dispassionately, duly, equally, evenly, fair, fairly, justly, properly, rightfully, rightly, truly ,

   be in stitches - break up, burst out, cackle, chortle, chuckle, crow, giggle, guffaw, laugh, laugh it up, roar, shout, shriek, snicker, snigger,

   precocity - brilliance, haste, hastiness, impulse, impulsiveness, precipitation, prematurity, rush ,

   in hock - debt, embarrassed, encumbered, in the red, indebted, involved, pledged, posted, put up, tied up ,

   favourable wind - aerospace, air, air hole, air pocket, air space, bump, ceiling, fog, front, head wind, hole, ionosphere, overcast, pocket, roughness,

   black gang - cabin boy, chips, complement, deckhand, fireman, gunner, hand, navigator, purser, radio operator, roustabout, snip, sparks, steward, stewardess,

   loins - bud, egg, germ, nucleus, rudiment, seed, spermatozoon ,

   hand-in-hand - allied, approaching, approximate, approximating, arm-in-arm, assembled, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, burning, cheek-by-jowl, close, collected, conjoined,

   at the height - extreme, far out, furthest, greatest, most, radical, too much, ultra, utmost, way out ,