FO

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• FO (noun)
  The noun FO has 1 sense:

1. an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel

  Familiarity information: FO used as a noun is very rare.

• FO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

field-grade officer; field officer; FO

Hypernyms ("FO" is a kind of...):

commissioned military officer (a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

 Context examples 

Pack up your kit and go for’ard into the fo’c’sle. You’re a boat-puller now. You’re promoted; see?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"You remember the other time I was here I said I couldn't talk about books an' things because I didn't know how? Well, I've ben doin' a lot of thinkin' ever since. I've ben to the library a whole lot, but most of the books I've tackled have ben over my head. Mebbe I'd better begin at the beginnin'. I ain't never had no advantages. I've worked pretty hard ever since I was a kid, an' since I've ben to the library, lookin' with new eyes at books—an' lookin' at new books, too—I've just about concluded that I ain't ben reading the right kind. You know the books you find in cattle- camps an' fo'c's'ls ain't the same you've got in this house, for instance. Well, that's the sort of readin' matter I've ben accustomed to. And yet—an' I ain't just makin' a brag of it—I've ben different from the people I've herded with. Not that I'm any better than the sailors an' cow-punchers I travelled with,—I was cow-punchin' for a short time, you know,—but I always liked books, read everything I could lay hands on, an'—well, I guess I think differently from most of 'em.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The best sailorman in the fo’c’sle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“If she comes out of there,” he said, “hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it’s likely there’ll be empty bunks in steerage and fo’c’sle.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Cabin-boy at twelve, ship’s boy at fourteen, ordinary seamen at sixteen, able seaman at seventeen, and cock of the fo’c’sle, infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself—navigation, mathematics, science, literature, and what not.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)