deployment goggles

English

Noun

deployment goggles pl (plural only)

1. (humorous, military slang) A tendency to regard people as more sexually attractive than one usually would, as a result of being deployed to a region where there are few potential partners.
   • 2010, Laura Browder, Sascha Pflaeging, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 137:

     Camp Cupcake was somewhere where the grunts would make a pit stop. They'd see you and you were the most beautiful thing in the world. Back home you may not be much, but out there they've got deployment goggles—you look good, so you're in chow hall and it's kind of uncomfortable because you feel like a piece of meat or something on display.

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