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[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 50: ‘Hey, second goddamn platoon, you all ready for that Veet-Cong?’ ‘Fuckin’ A’.
at fucking A!, excl.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 50: ‘Yeah, watchya gonna do to ‘em?’ [i.e. ‘that Veet-Cong’] ‘Kick ass and take names!’.
at kick ass and take names (v.) under kick ass, v.
[US] (con. 1961) P. Caputo Rumor of War 26: Ambition: to save enough money in the Corps to buy an even hairier beast.
at beast, n.
[US] P. Caputo Rumor of War 258: Death is a pleasure. The Big D is the world’s most powerful narcotic.
at Big D, n.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 158: ‘It was hotter’n a bitch, and Sully volunteered to fill canteens’.
at than a bitch under bitch, n.1
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 157: ‘What I want to know is, did you get your socks blown off? Did one of those honey-wa’s blow your socks off?’.
at blow the socks off, v.
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 108: Dogpatch [i.e. a bar/shop area near Da Nang air base] has acquired several whorehouses since the brigade landed. Boom-boom houses they are called in the local slang.
at boom-boom parlor (n.) under boom-boom, n.3
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 50: A big buck sergeant strode past our truck and called out, ‘Hey, second goddamn platoon, you all ready for them Veet-Cong?’.
at buck private, n.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 123: My aggressive spirit faded. [...] Charlie would live to fight another day, or, if he had been badly wounded, would crawl into some thicket to die.
at Charlie, n.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 83: The lack of enemy fire was another relief [...] Happiness is a cold landing zone.
at cold, adj.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 104: A rifleman cranks off a couple of rounds at something he has seen or heard.
at crank off (v.) under crank, v.
[US] P. Caputo Rumor of War 149: When I saw it down between my legs, all I could think of were my credentials.
at credentials, n.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 251: ‘We’re in the Corps, P.J. The Crotch. Semper fi and fuck your buddy’.
at crotch, n.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 93: Something slapped into the branches not six inches above my head; a fillip from Charlie. [...] Belatedly, I hit the deck.
at hit the deck (v.) under deck, n.1
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 57: ‘He put it [i.e. a bullet] right between us, lieutenant,’ Paulson said. ‘Jesus, if I’da been a couple inches the other way, I’da been deep-sixed sure as shit.’.
at deep six, v.
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 258: ‘We’ll wipe their ass. Can you dig it? Old fuckin’ Luke the Gook’s gonna die’.
at can you dig it? under dig, v.3
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 250: ‘Don’t you know it, asshole. It’s your mother.’ ‘Then I’m your son, and if you get dinged, I’ll be an orphan’.
at ding, v.1
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 239: We’re getting soaked and our asses shot at and he’s in there whacking off at dirty pictures’.
at dirty, adj.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 141: ‘He’s a shitbird in garrison, but a real evil dude in the boondocks’ .
at evil, adj.
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 213: ‘I can’t wait till I’m out of this fucked-up outfit. I can’t take any more of this petty bullshit’.
at fucked up, adj.
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 290: We heard Gunnery Sergeant Strong’s voice: [...] ‘Knock off the chatter, girls, and get your asses on the trucks’.
at girl, n.1
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 282: ‘He keeps going out, sir,’ said one of the riflemen. ‘If he don’t get evacked pretty quick, we’re afraid he’ll go out for good’.
at go out, v.
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 127: ‘D’ ja see that Charlie Marsden greased?’ ‘Yeah, blew his friggin’ brains out’.
at grease, v.5
[US] (con. 1961) P. Caputo Rumor of War 26: [of an automobile] Ambition: to save enough money in the Corps to buy an even hairier beast.
at hairy, adj.2
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 213: ‘I can’t wait till I’m out of this fucked-up outfit. I can’t take any more of this petty bullshit. Between that S.O.B. and Burin, I’m going rock happy’.
at -happy, sfx
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 41: So Lyons phones Kadena, gets him on the hook and says, ‘Mister Williamson, this is the battalion executive officer’.
at hook, n.1
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 293: A helicopter assault on a hot landing zone creates emotional pressures far more intense than a conventional ground assault.
at hot, adj.
[US] (con. 1965-66) P. Caputo Rumor of War 336: ‘The general’s going to put a letter of reprimand in your jacket, but hell, all that’ll do is hurt your chances for promotion’.
at jacket, n.
[US] (con. 1965) P. Caputo Rumor of War 251: ‘This one kid tells Horne to get laid, so Horne decks him. I mean, you just don’t tell that big son of a bitch to get laid’.
at get laid (v.) under lay, v.1
[US] (con. 1961) P. Caputo Rumor of War 28: The platoon sergeant [...] Six feet three inches and two hundred and twenty pounds of pure mean.
at mean, n.
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