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[UK] (con. 1939–45) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 41: He managed to hard-ass it more than a hundred miles over the mountains into Czechoslovakia before the Gestapo caught him.
at hard-ass, v.
[UK] (con. 1939–45) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 286: How long has it been since ye’ve seen a nice fresh white cackleberry like this one.
at cackleberry (n.) under cackle, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 285: Three-fourths of the bloody houses in Leipzig are clobbered.
at clobber, v.2
[UK] (con. 1939–45) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 95: It’s – that wind. It’s colder than a witch’s tit.
at ...a witch’s tit under colder than..., adj.
[UK] (con. 1939–45) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 209: First thing he did when the rest of us were corking out nine-tenths dead was to get ahold of a wheelbarrow someplace and go out and gather up most of these guys.
at cork out (v.) under cork, v.1
[UK] (con. 1939–45) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 180: I’m plenty corked.
at corked, adj.
[UK] (con. 1939–45) J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 283: Bombs away! Some place up ahead took an hour-long pasting.
at pasting, n.
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