• 'ten-shun

Eye dialect spelling ofattention.

ten-shun

1. (US, military)Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers toattention.
   • 1946, Harry Lester Baum,Prelude to Victory: A Masonic Play‎^[1]:

     Company, 'ten-shun—(More violently.) 'ten-shun, please...(He draws himself up exaggeratedly.) Stand straight, like soldiers!

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