1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 218: Raggedy-assed fucking way to run a war, if you ask me.at ragged-arsed, adj.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 70: I very, very good. Numbah one hot pussy. You want fuck? My ass like a machine.at ass, n.
1989 (con. 1969) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 271: All those candy-assed engineers got me here after all.at candy-assed, adj.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 48: I’d sure like to play carnival with her.at play carnival (v.) under play (at)..., v.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 64: People talk a lot of trash about Charlie [Viet Cong]. Well, let me tell you [...] He’s bad. But we’re badder.at bad, adj.
1989 (con. 1969) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 271: Well, I’ll be dipped in shit.at well, I’ll be dipped in shit!, excl.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 177: Don’t make no difference whether she’s fat or ugly [...] When beaver’s scarce, them that are carrying the pelts sets the price.at beaver, n.1
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 106: You bet your sweet bippy.at bippy, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 8: They accused me of diddly bopping. [Ibid.] 9: Sergeants treat diddly bopping as a moral flaw.at diddy-bopping, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 243: You’ll know this buckaroo caught himself the frostbite in this tropical fuckin’ country.at buckaroo, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 49: I’d be on her case like a duck on a June bug.at on someone’s case under case, n.1
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 20: Blowed him off a balcony in a cheap-ass hotel in Memphis.at cheap-ass (adj.) under cheap, adj.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 22: They go calling me Oreo and cutting my black ass to see how white I am inside.at Oreo (cookie), n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 260: ‘You was there!’ ‘Damn straight.’.at damn straight! (excl.) under damn, adv.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 242: I didn’t diddle around with the local stuff. [...] I’m as clean as a boiled rat.at diddle, v.1
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 22: You be wearing you dog tags then, Sampson. Just so’s we can identify the body.at dog tag (n.) under dog, n.2
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 104: Garrison duty’s a drag. Nothing to do but dope.at dope, v.3
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 24: Toss it out in front of yourself, dufous, so’s you don’t get shot, too.at dufus, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 268: Those dumb shit enlisted men never listen to a thing you say.at dumbshit, adj.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 258: Okay, been to Nam. Shit, you didn’t flunk out, did you?at flunk, v.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 157: Calvin paid with orange paper. Military payment certificates. The army wouldn’t give us greenbacks.at greenback, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 258: Jeeze, what happened to your leg?at jeez!, excl.
1989 (con. 1969) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 264: When I was a kid, the funniest stories I ever heard were told by survivors of a Stalag. Real knee slappers.at knee-slapper (n.) under knee, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 20: Move, honky. I’m relieving you out here. Get in the mofo truck [...] Shee-it, mofo. You mofo lucky they sent me along.at mofo, adj.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 20: Get your white ass in the truck, mofo.at mofo, n.
1989 W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 20: ‘Shee-it, mofo. You mofo lucky they sent me along.’ [...] It wasn’t till I saw Green the next morning that I knew we were still friends.at mofo, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 218: Shee-it. We be sending those mofo cameras and those monkey-assed earphones.at monkey-ass(ed) (adj.) under monkey, n.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 218: Mother Fuck. We oughta just split.at motherfuck!, excl.
1989 (con. 1968) W.E. Merritt Where the Rivers Ran Backward 242: I didn’t diddle around with the local stuff. Didn’t even punch on any doughnut dollies. I’m as clean as a boiled rat.at punch, v.