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[US] C. MacArthur War Bugs 200: German prisoners invariably were well heeled with such items as salmon and hardtack.
at heeled, adj.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 223: He regretted that he had no bullets to spare on so-and-so so-and-sos.
at so-and-so, adj.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 223: He regretted that he had no bullets to spare on so-and-so so-and-sos.
at so-and-so, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 248: The Belgies now insisted that we sleep in their feather beds.
at Belgie, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 187: It got so hot that we had to do belly-flops and fire from the crouch.
at bellyflop, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 114: It was fun to belly-flop on the crest and watch the battle.
at bellyflop, v.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 194: Blah, blah, blah, blah, and ‘we had such a wonderful dance on board Lione’s boat’.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 140: Then BLOOIE – The entire front blew up.
at blooey!, excl.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 71: He got boiled as an owl.
at boiled, adj.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 105: Shelter halves were oozing with mud, another result of the bonehead play.
at bonehead play (n.) under bonehead, n.1
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 129: A bitterness deriving from the Captain having addressed them as booze hounds.
at booze-hound (n.) under booze, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 176: You’re bushed.
at bushed, adj.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 193: The front was lousy with men. Every wood [...] bulged with U.S. citizens, itching to bust loose.
at bust loose (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 193: Our boyfriends were being yanked out, and the Marines were about to cash in on their chips.
at cash in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 201: Mr. Papolis was a Greek chippy-chaser.
at chippie-chaser (n.) under chippie, n.1
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 120: Often, of course, these S.O.S. cowboys would bump into the wrong guys.
at cowboy, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 203: It was grand to shed iron hats and gas masks, and twirl a dream, as the handmade construction of cigarettes was called.
at dream, n.3
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 47: The attack he nearly gummed up came off that morning.
at gum, v.2
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 279: This Schlemmer was the single Kraut in town who hated our guts.
at hate someone’s guts (v.) under gut, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 193: Still more Americanos boiled up to the front line and hung up their hats.
at hang one’s hat (v.) under hang, v.2
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 141: He was a swell gut, but hell on wheels socially.
at hell on wheels (n.) under hell, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 191: It’s good they get their high pay. To buy champagne ’most every day. (There’s a hot shot).
at hot-shot, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 237: Far behind us were [...] field clerks getting stewed in Paris and tipping their hats to hotsy-totsies.
at hotsy-totsy, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 62: The Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune and London Daily Mail, together with La Vie Parisienne and other hotsy-totsies.
at hotsy-totsy, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 161: People have been put in the Nut House for less.
at nut house, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 234: The green Ikes scattered all over [...] trying to cover their inexperience by talking loud.
at Ike, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 112: Another gun-carriage going kerplunk into the soup.
at kaplunk!, excl.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 236: The prevalent joke was to misunderstand all the new kiddos’ orders.
at kiddo, n.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 110: Our principal danger was from [...] planes skimming low over the road. One of these babies rustled through the trees and ran his kiddie car directly above our heads.
at kiddy, adj.
[US] (con. 1917–18) C. MacArthur War Bugs 140: We bawled them out for a lot of meat-heads.
at meathead, n.
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