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What Outfit, Buddy? choose

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[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 86: Bang! Bluey! Smash!
at blooey!, excl.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 55: When we got to the brig we found practically the whole outfit lined up there.
at brig, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 77: That hike was one of the worst things we bucked against durin’ this guerre.
at buck, v.2
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 35: I used to be a little two-by-four newspaper man.
at two-by-four, adj.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 22: At a distance you think these darn French villages are the cat’s knee-knuckles, so to speak, but when you get in them it’s the same old stuff.
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 13: His emergency rations of ‘corned willy’. [Ibid.] 77: We monjayed ‘corn willy,’ black coffee, and hardtack seventeen days straight.
at corned willie, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 75: It’s coffee with beaucoup hot milk, and it sure is the darb.
at darb, n.1
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 45: It was a battle to get that gink in his stall.
at gink, n.1
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 199: Listen to that hell-bent-for-election noise.
at hellbent for election (adv.) under hellbent, adj.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 45: That night we were out to see for fair and the Panaman did some stunts that would make a good Holy Roller feel ashamed.
at Holy Roller, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 181: Guess they had regular funerals [...] for the guys that got knocked off.
at knock off, v.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 101: Regimental, brigade, division, and the whole damn shootin’-match.
at whole shooting match, the, phr.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 76: Say, you ought to have seen the guys pike me off.
at pike, v.3
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 33: Golly! it must be pippin stuff to have a sister like that.
at pippin, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 41: When you put sixty mules and fifty men in a rat-hole, ’way below fresh air and daylight [...] Gas ain’t in it with the fumes.
at rathole, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 58: Catch me givin’ them dirty sausage-meats cigarettes now.
at sausage-eater (n.) under sausage, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 161: The coffee’s got sugar in it for a wonder. Make it fast or we’ll get nothin’ but seconds.
at seconds, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 152: ‘Any cigarettes?’ asked Joyce [...] ‘All out of smokings,’ was the disappointing answer.
at smoke, n.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 93: I told him to make it snappy.
at make it snappy (v.) under snappy, adj.
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 44: Course O’Rourke was sore as a boil.
at sore as... under sore, adj.1
[US] T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 43: Along came Bill o’Rourke, actin’ top-kicker.
at top kick (n.) under top, adj.
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