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The Legion of Marching Madmen choose

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[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 23: [A]rrack [...] has a devil of a kick. Tiger, being a young fool who would try anything once, took more aboard than was good for him.
at aboard, adv.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 13: He may have been a tough, hard-case wallah, but he usually managed to keep a cool head.
at hard-case, adj.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 109: ‘[H]how’n hell you going to find the dame? She may be conked out by now’.
at conked (out), adj.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 235: He would snuggle down for his rest and be asleep in a matter of seconds. When he was wakened he was really awake, instantly alert! He could get down to it and up again with the precision of a clock.
at go down to it (v.) under go down, v.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 167: ‘[D]on’t shave from now on, kid. As a prisoner with the Turks that fairy dial of yours would damn you from the word “go!”’.
at fairy, adj.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 15: Scores of fellows flopped out of those bellums with heat stroke and were never seen again.
at flop out (v.) under flop, v.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 204: The child drew a grubby finger across her throat and spat. [...] ‘Gone home, huh? Too bad!’ ‘Gonnome?’ ‘Yeah. Finished. Dead!’ ‘Oui. Dead, dead, dead!’ .
at go home (v.) under home, n.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 109: ‘[H]how’n hell you going to find the dame? She may be conked out by now’ [...] ‘The runt is light-headed!’ quoth Steve.
at lightheaded (adj.) under lighthead, n.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 108: Pull yourself together, for the love of Mike! [...] Come on, pick ‘em up! Be a soldier and stop slobbering like a pink tea!’.
at pinktea, n.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 204: But the way [out] could not be discovered [...] The town had already been raked from end to end.
at rake, v.2
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 170: An unmentionable mixture was wrapped in leaves. One could smell this home-made brand [of tobacco] several yards away!
at unmentionable, adj.
[UK] W.J. Blackledge Legion of Marching Madmen 240: [A] greasy Levantine [...] addressed certain remarks to me of an unparliamentary nature.
at unparliamentary, adj.
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