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The Old Breed choose

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[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 320: I brought my own arse outa there, swabbie.
at arse, n.
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 241: One man or combination of men in the tent had Big Dealed the components of coffee: one might have ‘borrowed’ the canned, condensed milk, another the sugar.
at big deal, v.
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 219: One man was a souvenir bug, and carried a special ditty bag in which he kept Japanese flags, buttons [...] money.
at bug, n.4
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 235: Dinner was corned willie cakes.
at corned willie, n.
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 408: Those old buzzards have been sittin’ on their duff at desks!
at duff, n.2
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 241: This is the way to do it, knucklehead!
at knucklehead, n.
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 244: Some of those letters [...] really rocked me!
at rock, v.3
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 213: Chesty [...] allowed the sawbones to cut out the shrapnel.
at sawbones (n.) under saw, n.2
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 331: Well before the 7th had shot its wad.
at shoot one’s wad (v.) under wad, n.3
[US] G. McMillan Old Breed 217: The milk in these [coconuts] was like a club soda, [...] zippy and peppy.
at zippy, adj.
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