1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 P. Caputo Rumor of War 258: Death is a pleasure. The Big D is the world’s most powerful narcotic.at Big D, n.
1977 (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
1977 (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.
1977 (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
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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
1977 (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.
1977 (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
1977 (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
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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
1977 (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.
1977 (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
1977 (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
1977 (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
1977 (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
1977 (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.
1977 (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.
1977 (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
1977 (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.