noun
- a civilian, especially as distinguished from military personnel
Usage: informal; chiefly British
Examples
- After twenty years in the army, he found it hard to adjust to civvy life.
- The base was off-limits to civvies during the exercise.
- She changed out of her uniform and into civvy clothes.
- The pub was popular with both soldiers and civvies.
- He missed the structure of military life after becoming a civvy.
- Civvies weren’t allowed in that section of the building.