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True Nov. 69/1: The two lawyers had in addition the business of every free-lance safecracker, forger, arsonist [...] bucket-shop proprietor, and panel thief whose business was worth having [DA].at bucket shop, n.
True Nov. 69/1: The two lawyers had in addition the business of every free-lance safecracker, forger, arsonist [...] bucket-shop proprietor, and panel thief whose business was worth having [DA]. True Nov. 69/1: The two lawyers had in addition the business of every free-lance safecracker, forger, arsonist [...] bucket-shop proprietor, and panel thief whose business was worth having [DA].at panel thief (n.) under panel, n.1
True Apr. 39: Each of America’s past wars has produced synonyms for the word ‘girl,’ which is possibly the most important word in the GI vocabulary [...] in Japan there was ‘moose’ (derived from the Japanese ‘musume,’ meaning girl or daughter). Since Korea was close to Japan, Korean girls also become ‘mooses’.at moose, n.2
True Apr. 39: From the American occupation of Japan, the phrase ‘number one’ (from the Japanese ‘ichiban,’ meaning very good, the best) found a permanent place in GI talk. By extension, ‘number ten’ came to mean very bad, the worst.at number ten, adj.
True Apr. 39: ‘Roger. Do you require dustoff?’ ‘Negative, but the pucker factor would be lower if he could orbit for awhile.’.at pucker, n.
True Apr. 39: For breakfast, mess halls still serve ‘unmentionable on shingles,’ and GI’s down on their luck are still advised to have the chaplain punch their ‘TS cards’.at shit on a shingle (n.) under shit, n.
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