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[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 44: The female organ was ‘the bearded clam’ or ‘the mossy doughnut’.
at bearded clam, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 79: The flight was a unit and it couldn’t function [...] with one member in the clap shack.
at clap-shack (n.) under clap, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 209: In the Army they were called Doggies, which was short of Dog-faces.
at dogface (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 79: A dose of the clap ain’t half as bad as piles.
at dose, n.1
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 197: ‘We haven’t got a chance,’ he said. ‘No more than a fart in a windstorm.’.
at not a fart’s chance in a windstorm under fart, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 209: Our Marine infantrymen were a different species, called Gravel-crunchers or Crunchies.
at gravel-crusher (n.) under gravel, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 21: Hayseeds, he said, with cow shit still on their shoes.
at hayseed, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 148: I felt like a character in [...] a recruiting movie, Freddy the Fearless Leatherneck.
at leatherneck, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 44: The female organ was ‘the bearded clam’ or ‘the mossy doughnut’.
at mossy doughnut (n.) under mossy, adj.2
[UK] (con. WWII) S. Hynes Flights of Passage 78: Come on, you guys, it’s blue as shit out there!
at as shit (adv.) under shit, n.
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