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All Bull: The National Servicemen choose

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[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 171: We made love for the first time that night; not for want of my trying earlier, but now she really did want it too, and how!
at and how!, excl.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 64: Sign on! They can kiss my Royal Norfolk rectum!
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 151: If ever I detested a concept, it was bags of swank, but I got to apply it.
at bags (of), n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 11: Those Z-reservists who, on receiving their recall papers for the Suez crisis, sent them back with the one word bollocks scrawled across them.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 196: When the balloon goes up — and, mark my words, it’s going to go up pretty soon now.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 29: The cooks [...] doled out tinned toms and greasy bangers.
at banger, n.3
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 235: The whole Army, that is to say, was a Shower: and quite barmy.
at barmy, adj.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 23: Other times he wandered into the guard room late at night and beat shit out of the prisoners.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 218: It was the job of the War Office to advise the next of kin of the loss of their son or husband in our last, pathetic, futile, blimpish escapade.
at blimpish (adj.) under blimp, n.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 241: I really don’t know why the boffins don’t do something about it.
at boffin, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 31: He came downstairs one night and said that his bog was blocked.
at bog, n.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 122: You’re not a Bolshie, are you?
at bolshie, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 271: It appeared to me that all officers were fools, and pompous fools to boot: and Lord, how I felt like booting them!
at boot, v.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 121: I always drink some before I go on the booze [...] It lines your stomach.
at on the booze under booze, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 34: What’s it to be? Strip-show or booze-up or what?
at booze-up, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 24: There was the night Scouse Jenkins bottled the duty officer.
at bottle, v.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 124: A small huddle of soldiers who were broke [...] would come once a fortnight.
at broke, adj.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 139: I would have to ‘buck my ideas up’, they said.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 28: ‘I’m Phil.’ ‘I’m Frank.’ ‘I’m buggered!’.
at buggered, adj.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 28: A bulled-up little runt who brandished a black stick and turned out to be the guard commander. [Ibid.] 150: Bull in the barrack-room and drill on the square dominate a soldier’s activity.
at bull, n.6
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 117: The fleshpots of the Mediterranean, where I spent two rich years bumming around in poverty.
at bum, v.3
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 93: The hope that [...] you could have your first ‘bunk-up’ with a girl.
at bunk up, n.2
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 179: There was one rumour about a colleague of Strychnine’s buggering a cook, or was it a NAAFI orderly, and getting busted.
at bust, v.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 169: Certainly it was often out of the compound on Bouncy Boosy’s days off.
at buzzy, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 112: He was concerned with the here and now, for which he, poor man, carried the can.
at carry the can (for) (v.) under can, n.1
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 174: Strychnine was a corporal then, an anaemic National Service capo who got us to breakfast parade by seven-thirty every day.
at capo, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 217: All the hard cases were apparently either Scot or Scouse.
at hard case, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 186: Rumour had it that he had been caught short in the crisis. The only man in the latrine when the camp was abandoned.
at caught short, adj.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 28: When a siren blew we moved off [...] still in our civvies.
at civvies, n.
[UK] B.S. Johnson All Bull 35: They’ve got some lovely diseases out there and the women are all riddled with the clap.
at clap, n.
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