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[US] (con. 1941) A. Kernan Crossing the Line 14: The streetcar clanged back to ‘Dago’ where the streets were filled with sailors on liberty.
at Dago, n.
[US] (con. 1941) A. Kernan Crossing the Line 97: One of the officers was keeping a kootch, a local whore, in a cabin down in the bushes.
at kootch, n.
[US] (con. 1941) A. Kernan Crossing the Line 87: It was a lily-white navy that never gave its racism a thought.
at lilywhite, adj.
[US] (con. 1941) A. Kernan Crossing the Line 23: Happily drunk on ‘moosemilk,’ a mixture of coffee and bombsight alcohol, of 99 percent purity.
at moose milk (n.) under moose, n.1
[US] (con. 1941) A. Kernan Crossing the Line 100: Ensign Dilbert went back to ‘Uncle Sugar’ the next day for further training.
at Uncle Sam, n.1
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