nasho means military national service, conscription. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
Clipping of national service + -o.
noun
- Military national service, conscription.“National Service was meant to turn boys into men and make the Yellow Peril think twice about moving south. It was universally known as Nasho – a typically Australian diminutive.[…]But the most brutal fact about Nasho was the initial seventy-seven-day period of basic training, most of which took place at Ingleburn.”
- A person doing military national service.“The white Rhodie ‘nashos’ (another derogatory term for national servicemen—this time from the Brit regulars), however, brought to the battalion a level of education that was previously unknown.”