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eagle scout

noun

  1. a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eagle scout1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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Example Sentences

Achievement always marked his path: Eagle Scout, then Marine Corps—Iraq and Afghanistan—then Georgetown Law.

McKenna here proved to remain an Eagle Scout in the very best sense amidst the bloodiest and most harrowing fight in the war.

McKenna was quite literally an Eagle Scout as he grew up on East 2nd Street in Brooklyn.

Enzi, on the other hand, grew up in Thermopolis, Wyoming, where he received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

Nevertheless, for some unfathomable reason, the Eagle Scout sticks around.

Antelope was headed directly for Eagle Scout Butte, for the camp was in plain view from the top of this hill.

Once (oh, this happened several years before) he helped a boy in his patrol to become20 an Eagle Scout.

And do you mean to tell me that a scout can be any more of a scout than that—an Eagle Scout?

He was then and there an Eagle Scout and he did not know it.

He did not want to be a star scout; he must be an eagle scout.

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