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[US] in S. Crane Dispatches 153: He began to get ‘hunky’ with all those people who had been plugging at him.
at hunky, adj.1
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 116: He wrapped tight enough to tear you a new asshole.
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 37: Bullshit questions about [...] the ranges of AKs and 16s, what shells did when they hit treetops [etc.].
at a.k., n.3
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 237: The Dinks have been mucking about with Page.
at muck about, v.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 91: ‘Oh no, you raggedy-assed bastard,’ Gunny said when he got back to the outfit.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 27: Well, big deal, candy ass [...] You were scared.
at candy-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 220: Hold on to your ass awhile. You people from the electronic media don’t scare me anymore.
at hold (on to) one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 124: The grunts called it [i.e. a safe bunker] the Alamo Hilton and thought it was candy-assed.
at candy-assed, adj.
[US] M. Herr Dispatches 54: The machine [was] running halfassed and depressed.
at half-assed, adv.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 177: This grass is Number Ten [...] Every time I smoke this grass over here it gives me a bad trip.
at bad trip (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 28: You only look like about ten thousand miles of bad road.
at — miles of bad road, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 60: Doomsday celebs, technomatic projectionists; chemicals, gases, lasers, sonic-electric ballbreakers.
at ball-breaker, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 201: I didn’t mean nothin’ [...] Don’t go gettin’ your balls in an uproar.
at get one’s balls in an uproar (v.) under balls, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 40: Leaving him with [...] helpless amazement on his face, ‘Well I’ll be dipped in shit!’.
at well, I’ll be dipped in shit!, excl.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 179: They’ll stay tired until their tours are up and the big bird flies them back to the World.
at bird, n.1
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 56: He who bites it this day is safe from the next.
at bite it (v.) under bite, v.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 42: Those men called dead Vietnamese ‘believers,’ a lost American platoon was a ‘black eye’.
at black eye, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 257: A reporter friend looking totally mind-blown, he woke up that morning and heard two Marines lying next to him making love.
at blow someone’s mind, v.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 60: Coming through a year of that [i.e. Vietnam] without becoming totally blown out indicated as much heart as you’d need.
at blown (out), adj.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 9: Even bone-dumb grunts seemed to feel that something weird and extra was happening to them.
at bone, adv.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 47: He’s all pissed out, Charlie’s all pissed out, booger’s shot his whole wad.
at booger, n.2
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 36: ‘Changee money,’ ‘Boom-boom picture,’ ‘Dinkydau cigarette.’.
at boom-boom, n.3
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 131: We can smoke some bullshit.
at bullshit, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 12: We aim to make good and goddammit sure that if those guys try anything cute they won’t catch us with our pants down.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 60: Doomsday celebs, technomatic projectionists; chemicals, gases, lasers, sonic-electric ballbreakers.
at celeb, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 12: No sense us getting too relaxed. Charlie don’t relax. [Ibid.] 43: The countryside was either blasted over cold an dead or already back in Charles’ hands.
at Charlie, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 48: Six canteen patrols that came back [...] chewed over by ambushes and quick, deft mortar-rocket attacks.
at chew up, v.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 138: Mayhew got himself a little number [...] llittle chickie workin’ the scivvie houses.
at chickie, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 29: [They] said they never heard a grunt talk about anything except cars, football and chone.
at chone, n.
[US] (con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 7: Three-star war food, the same chop they sold at Abercrombie & Fitch.
at chop, n.2
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