sarge

See also: Sarge and Särge

English edit

Alternative forms edit

Sarge

Etymology edit

From sergeant, q.v. In reference to PUA slang, coined by American writer and television personality Ross Jeffries after the behavior of his cat Sarge.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɑːd͡ʒ/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /sɑɹd͡ʒ/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun edit

sarge (plural sarges)

(military, colloquial) Short for sergeant.
(seduction community) An instance of sarging.
- 2003 March 4, SexPDX, “Juggler Workshop Review and Lay Report (VERY LONG)”, in alt.seduction.fast‎^[1] (Usenet):
  I did not interpret this advice correctly at first and in the same sarge as the hand-slap Juggler observed that she was really into me and liking my game but a little annoyed that I kept encroaching on her by moving myself closer to her while keeping myself square.
- 2012 September 25, Matt Jenkins, Bertie Brandes, “My Day Out with the London Seduction Society”, in VICE‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-07-23:
  I thought it would be funny and depressing to join them on what they call the "Saturday Sarge." A sarge is when a group of morons roam around looking for girls to annoy. Sounds gr8 right?

Usage notes edit

Like mom, dad, doctor, etc., sarge is properly lower-case when functioning in general reference and upper-case when used as a name for a specific person, as with the character Sarge in the American comic strip Beetle Bailey.

Translations edit

colloquial form of sergeant

Czech: serža m
Finnish: kessu (fi)

Verb edit

sarge (third-person singular simple present sarges, present participle sarging, simple past and past participle sarged)

(intransitive, seduction community) To go out and engage women in order to pick them up.
- 2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[3], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-01:
  Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).