Definition of "doughboys" [doughboys]

• Plural form of doughboy. (noun)

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• "Our kitchen was dug down in thick woods through six feet of snow, and our main reliance was on boiled "doughboys" -- the "sinkers" among which, with a slice of fat pork or a basin of bird soup, were as popular as lobster à la Newburg at Delmonico's or Sherry's."
• "Family spokesman and Buckles biographer David DeJonge said Thursday that plans to let the public pay respects to the last of the so-called doughboys remain in limbo."
• "The subjects of this superb documentary, by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, are the men called doughboys in World War I, dogfaces in World War II and grunts in Vietnam in other words, American soldiers who were fighting wars on the ground long before the phrase "on the ground" became a media clich."