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[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: show a leg . . . arise from your hammocks, merry gentlemen, let nothing you delay.
at show a leg!, excl.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: a D.D. . . . a deaf and dumb person.
at d and d, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: angel cake and wine ... bread and water in confinement.
at angel cake and wine (n.) under angel, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: sad apple ... a goldbrick. One who shuns work.
at sad apple (n.) under apple, n.1
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: arithmetic bugs ... mosquitos, insects. They add up to the misery, subtract from the pleasure, divide the attention and multiply like Hades.
at arithmetic bug, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: Arizona tenor ... a consumptive.
at Arizona tenor (n.) under Arizona, adj.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: strawberries ... prunes.
at army strawberries (n.) under army, n.2
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: an Asiatic ... a man who has spent much time on Asiatic stations [...] a man who missed too many boats.
at asiatic, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: blow it out of your bag . . . refrain from talking, if you will be so good!
at blow it out your ass!, excl.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: Baltimore . . . liver.
at Baltimore steak, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: cross bar hotel . . . the guardhouse.
at cross-bar hotel, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: battlewagon . . . a battleship or dreadnought.
at battle wagon (n.) under battle, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: beetle . . . a girl to Alaska soldiers.
at beetle, n.2
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: army Bible . . . regulations. [Ibid.] Bible . . . Army Field Manual.
at bible, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: big deal . . . uncalled for action.
at big deal, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: bilge water . . . bragging or nonsense.
at bilgewater, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: He might have been a little [...] binged [...] but he certainly wasn’t drunk.
at binged (adj.) under binge, v.1
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: bird dogging . . . dancing with a superior’s girl.
at bird dog, v.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: General issue coffee [...] blackstrap.
at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: pass the black out . . . general issue coffee.
at blackout, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: newspaper [...] bladder.
at bladder, n.1
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: blanket and freckles . . . the makin’s.
at blanket, n.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: He might have been a little [...] bleary eyed [...] but he certainly wasn’t drunk.
at bleary, adj.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: blue room . . . cell in brig.
at blue room (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: beat the booby ... slap body to increase circulation.
at beat the booby (v.) under booby, n.1
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: skylarking . . . boondoggling.
at boondoggle, v.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: boshter . . . great.
at boshter, adj.
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: Recruit [...] bozo.
at bozo, n.1
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: brick . . . a muscular girl who won’t stand any fooling.
at brickhouse, n.2
[US] P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: bug bombs . . . canned fog for killing insects in jungles.
at bug bomb (n.) under bug, n.4
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