Usually means: Enthusiastically dedicated and overly zealous.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gung-Ho, Gung-ho, gung-ho: Wordnik
  2. gung-ho: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. gung-ho: Wiktionary
  4. gung-ho: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. gung-ho: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. gung-ho: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. gung-ho: Dictionary.com
  8. gung-ho: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gung-ho: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. gung-ho: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. gung-ho: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. gung-ho: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gung-ho, gung-ho, gung-ho: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gung-ho: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Alternative spelling of gung ho [(informal, often derogatory) Overly enthusiastic or energetic.]

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