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[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 7: [He] had served with the US Marines [...] Loud, outspoken, fit as a butcher’s dog .
at fit as a butcher’s dog (adj.) under butcher, n.1
[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 144: Ducs and Fino were donuting a 5 series BMW around the car park like they were Starsky and Hutch .
at doughnut, v.
[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 45: [I]t was only silly pride that stopped you from dusting off a perfectly edible piece of bread from the bin .
at dust (off) (v.) under dust, v.1
[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 198: The next few days were taken up with the inevitable round of cleaning jobs, which as ever, consisted of the Corporals and Sergeants sitting around smoking and gobbing off whilst the rest of us sweated buckets .
at gob off (v.) under gob, v.
[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 136: [I]t had been Valera who had told me to take as much [water] as possible. If I became hacked off with the weight.....I could always drink it .
at hacked (off), adj.
[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 72: [P]laying around in inflatable dinghys in the Meddy .
at Meddy, the, n.
[UK] G. Carins Diary of a Legionnaire 194: Someone mentioned taxi surfing, and giving the driver some money not to pull over we took it in turns to climb out of the back window and onto the roof of the car .
at taxi-surfing (n.) under taxi, n.
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