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[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 51: Just gimme my mail and never mind making like J. Edgar Hoover.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 328: Don’t get your balls in an uproar. I don’t give a good shit if you never leave.
at not give a shit, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 337: Not that I give a cockeyed fuck.
at not give a fuck, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 239: Ain’t that the truth? Everybody’s got it made but the poor sonofabitchin’ infantryman.
at ain’t that it, phr.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 239: Ain’t that the truth? Everybody’s got it made but the poor sonofabitchin’ infantryman.
at ain’t it (the truth), phr.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 329: ‘I don’t think I’ll get another hard-on for a month.’ ‘Oh, sure, in a pig’s patrot!’.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 26: She’s uglier than a bagful of assholes.
at ...a hatful of arseholes under ugly as..., adj.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 282: Miller’s ol’ lady will be out on the street the night she gets this letter, letting everyone who comes along bang her, just to tuck it up Calvin’s ass for spite.
at tuck it up someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 340: I’d suggest you put your ass in your hand and screw.
at put one’s ass in one’s hand and screw under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 69: I could see he was shit-ass, but I didn’t care.
at shit-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1951) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 22: Miller was tear-ass.
at tear-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 325: ‘You know what they say in the Navy,’ I told them. ‘Keep a tight asshole and you’ll be all right.’.
at keep a tight asshole (v.) under asshole, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 277: B-girls moved from table to table, trying, with promises, to entice people to buy them drinks.
at B-girl, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 54: Probably wrote that to bust my balls.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] (con. 1951) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 24: Nine weeks on the Anzio beachhead in the Big Two.
at Big Two, the, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 230: ‘With him it just comes naturally.’ Dewey said. ‘You ain’t just a-birdturdin’,’ said Coggins.
at bird turd, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 83: It beats a blank.
at blank, n.
[US] (con. 1951) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 77: Coggins was the big bopper now.
at big bopper (n.) under bopper, n.1
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 328: Don’t get your balls in an uproar. I don’t give a good shit if you never leave.
at don’t get your bowels in an uproar under bowels, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 328: ‘Hey, shit-for-brains,’ I called to him.
at shit-for-brains, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 69: The air blatted out of him like a Bronx cheer.
at Bronx cheer, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 28: He hadn’t issued orders either to bug out or to stay and fight.
at bug out, v.1
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 232: Cut the ca-ca, Daigle. Toss the dice.
at caca, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 336: You’re a fourteen-carat dirty bastard, Coggins.
at eighteen-carat, adj.
[US] (con. 1951) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 5: [of a North Korean] It was a Chink’s head. The headless corpse, seething with maggots.
at Chink, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 321: I’ll give Momma San a kick in the ass if she doesn’t get out of here, chop-chop.
at chop-chop, adv.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 66: Hey, you two chowderheads.
at chowder-head, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 217: What’s cookin’ here, you guys?
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 81: Do you guys think Coggins’d help us if we cut him in for a couple of cases?
at cut in, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) McAleer & Dickson Unit Pride (1981) 336: If you guys had half a brain, you’d’ve appropriated some juice outa the kitchen to cut this with.
at cut, v.6
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