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A military Swiss Army knife shaped like a brick that laughs at roads.
means A rugged, boxy military vehicle (officially the HMMWV) built to haul troops and gear over terrain that would eat a regular truck alive, and later civilianized as the Hummer.
from Pure acronym alchemy: HMMWV stands for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, a mouthful the U.S. military coined for the jeep's hulking successor developed in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Say the acronym fast and it slurs into 'humvee' — soldiers' tongues did the rest, turning a procurement document's dry initialism into a nickname with its own swagger.
- real name
- HMMWV: High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
- civilian spinoff
- Hummer H1 made it a status symbol, not a weapon
- fuel economy
- gets around 4 to 8 miles per gallon
- origin year
- replaced the Jeep for the US military in 1984