Military jargon

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Q: Am I losing it or did I once know a guy (in the late '70s) who
> used "borrow" in a similarly "reversed" way to mean "lend" or "loan".

You could be losing it, but this usage doesn't in itself prove things.

DARE has a nice entry for _borrow_ 'lend', with cites from
Dialect Notes I (1896) on up, the regional note "scattered,
but esp wGt Lakes", and the status label "esp among young
speakers and speakers with grade school educ".

Jesse Sheidlower
OED