CHU
n.— «Flanagan slept in mobile home-like boxes called Closed Housing Units or, in the Army’s acronym-heavy lingo, CHUs (pronounced “chews”).» —“Doctor, soldier” by Pam Mellskog in Firestone Daily Times-Call (Longmont, Colo.) Mar. 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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