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[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 37: Blow it, wise guy.
at blow it out your ass!, excl.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 58: Open ’at bag, you wise-assed sonuvva bitch!
at wise-ass, adj.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 34: Major Brill’s bright-assed battalion.
at -assed, sfx
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 54: Yer a bonzer boy, Yank.
at bonzer, adj.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 129: I’m gonna teach you helium-heads how to shoot mortars.
at helium-brain, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 98: Maybe Patsy wants to bump heads.
at bump heads (v.) under bump, v.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 142: You’ll be the saddest busted-ass lieutenant.
at bust one’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 42: He was only a chicken boot replacement.
at chicken, adj.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 67: They were going to grab the guard and hold him while the rest of them played Ping-pong with your coconut.
at coconut, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 66: Stop, Sarge! Don’t go in there or you’ll get creamed.
at get creamed (v.) under cream, v.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 45: What a crock o’ crap [...] What a crock o’ chicken crap.
at crock of shit, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 22: ‘Gallagher, Ahm gonna climb youah frame. On youah feet!’ [...] They fought for fifteen minutes and it must have been a good scrap.
at climb someone’s frame (v.) under frame, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 128: All right, you knotheads!
at knothead, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 136: ‘Mush, you big mushhead, you — mush,’ I said!
at mush, n.4
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 65: Regular Nancy, you are, always fancying yer pretty ’air like a bloomin’ movie queen.
at nancy, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 75: You can’t make me believe that that Captain Boort’s anything but a one-way paper-ass.
at one-way, adj.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 59: I was in the bread-and-water cell starting to do my five days of piss-and-punk.
at piss and punk (n.) under piss, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 41: He’s still sackin’ in.
at sack in (v.) under sack, v.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 29: It was no skin off his backside.
at no skin off one’s ass under skin, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 134: You ain’t gonna be high enough to kiss a snake’s belly.
at could crawl under a snake’s belly under snake, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 111: I’m going to ride you so hard yer gonna think yer rear end is suckin’ wind.
at suck wind, v.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 84: What, hell! A towhead?
at towhead, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 42: Don’t blow the whistle on him [...] you can’t blame him for blowing his stack.
at blow the whistle (on) (v.) under whistle, n.
[US] (con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 111: Wipe ’at smile off yer face!
at wipe the smile off someone’s face (v.) under wipe, v.
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