- a member of a group of American militiamen just before and during the Revolutionary War who held themselves in readiness for instant military service.
- a U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile with three stages, powered by solid-propellant rocket engines.
- a member of a small, secret, ultraconservative organization formed into armed groups for the declared purpose of conducting guerrilla warfare against a communist invasion of the U.S.
- (in the War of American Independence) a colonial militiaman who promised to be ready to fight at one minute's notice
- a US three-stage intercontinental ballistic missile
