Vols

Orange-clad SEC team

Vols is short for volunteers, most commonly referring to the University of Tennessee Volunteers athletic teams: The Vols play Alabama this weekend.

The nickname honors Tennessee's volunteer soldiers in the War of 1812.

Outside sports contexts, vols typically abbreviates volumes in citations and catalogs.

Tennessee

Knoxville

Southeastern university city

NCAA · college football

volunteers

volunteers

Unpaid willing workers

helpers · activism · community service · nonprofit · aid workers · Peace Corps · AmeriCorps · humanitarian

volumes

volumes

Amounts or books

issues · publications · periodicals · journals · anthologies · collections · compilations · archives · folios · manuscripts

Opposites
volunteer state symbolism

Volsconscripts

Compulsory military personnel

draftees · coerced · compelled · shanghaied · mercenaries

Phrases
Family

vol, volley, volleys, volleyed, volleying, volleyball, volleyballs

Familiarity
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Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G