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[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 230: [They] had decided to celebrate the event by crawling round some of their old haunts. I had arrived at the beginning of the crawl.
at crawl, n.
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 124: I went into town, crawled around the bars and bordels, and crawled home—not a wiser man!
at crawl, v.2
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 64: [W]e are creased at the end of the day and need every minute of sleep we can get.
at creased, adj.
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 119: We flogged through the undergrowth all day and covered about twenty miles, hacking away with our coupe-coupe.
at flog, v.
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 294: Somebody had to take the knock to prevent total loss and to enable a rationalization to be made of the incident .
at take the knock (v.) under knock, n.1
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 220: Fonfon comes to the tent and brings steaks and lamb chops from time to time and I think this tips the balance and just keeps Subera on side .
at onside, adj.
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 265: He is liquid slime as far as I am concerned .
at slime, n.
[UK] S. Murray Legionnaire 162: The unfortunate Arab had given Hirschfeld both barrels in the back but both cartridges had failed him [...] Nobody had ever come closer to his ticket than Hirschfeld .
at ticket, n.1
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