ten-shun
See also: 'ten-shun
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Eye dialect spelling of attention.
Interjection edit
- (US, military) Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers to attention.
- 1946, Harry Lester Baum, Prelude to Victory: A Masonic Play[1]:
- Company, 'ten-shun—(More violently.) 'ten-shun, please... (He draws himself up exaggeratedly.) Stand straight, like soldiers!