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[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 32: Drag your tail down the main stem [...] and you’ll see the town gate.
at drag one’s ass, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 118: The chow hounds have got too much in their mess-kits to run around to the rear of the line still eatin’.
at chow hound (n.) under chow, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 103: Oh, you clever dip!
at dip, n.5
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 205: They [...] found themselves confronted by half a dozen unshaven doughboys with fixed bayonets.
at doughboy, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 177: ‘Let’s drag,’ said Eadie.
at drag, v.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 238: We may live to see another pay-day. The eagle hasn’t done his bit for me in a long time and I’d like to spend a little money.
at when the eagle shits (n.) under eagle, n.2
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 107: He’s the man that brought you home the night you got orey-eyed ay Cokeydawn.
at ory-eyed, adj.
[US] L. Nason Chevrons 73: I’d tell ’em to take a flyin’ fling at the moon.
at flying fuck, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 73: I’d tell ’em all to take a flyin’ fling at the moon.
at take a flying fuck (v.) under flying fuck, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 39: I was [...] thinking you were somewhere in hospital goldbricking your time away.
at goldbrick, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 318: The prisoners and my goldbricking friends get turkey and the rest of you don’t?
at goldbricking, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 27: He issued out a can o’ goldfish.
at goldfish, n.2
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 176: I’ve been a hardrock man all my life.
at hardrock, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 41: I heard you went over the hill.
at go over the hill (v.) under hill, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 183: Well, I earned a dollar yesterday an’ I’ll earn another one today. I’ll remark they’ll be the toughest two iron boys I ever made in my life.
at iron boy (n.) under iron, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 159: That’s the goddamned regular army for you, go kiting across the landscape and devil take any one else.
at kite, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 27: He and Darcy took the proferred cigarettes, tailor-mades, too.
at tailor-made, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 72: This nit-wit officer we got.
at nitwitted, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 97: The pill rollers carry those packs now.
at pill-roller (n.) under pill, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 47: I was slinging hash in this man’s army before he was pupped.
at pup, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 36: I thought you were a shark at French.
at shark, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 195: Didn’t he have ’em by the nose? Direct disobedience an’ the other shavey for a witness.
at shaver, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 39: Yessir and be damn! I’m glad to see you.
at yes sir!, excl.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 105: Listen, skull! This stripe is on the right cuff. [Ibid.] 177: No, not gassed, you big skull.
at skull, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 230: I thought my sticker was in him for the rest of the war.
at sticker, n.2
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 261: They had a machine gun up and he stopped one.
at stop one (v.) under stop, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 99: What did Jake do, get torched up?
at torch up (v.) under torch, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 48: Can you let me have a can of hardtack and some canned willy? [Ibid.] 316: Who wants to bet me we get canned willie?
at willie, n.2
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