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[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 41: If he wasn’t doin’ sixty miles a hour, I’m a nigger.
at I’m a nigger, phr.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 206: G’wan, run away back to your own outfit o’ apple-squeezers before someone shakes his fists at yuh.
at apple-squeezer (n.) under apple, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 53: That blank-dashed, cross-cut, blanket-branded, tinhorn, two-for-a-nickel, son of a mangy coyote.
at blank, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 104: Ah, that brass-bound clam-digger.
at clam-diggers (n.) under clam, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 105: That port don’t get opened till we get to the other side, or to Davy Jones’ locker.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 114: ‘You ain’t there yet,’ said the flatfoot. ‘To-morrow we get into the submarine zone.’.
at flatfoot, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 108: He swallowed often and hard, and had a nice green tinge to his gills.
at gills, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 277: You mean I got to hike all day on foot like a god-damned mud-crusher.
at gravel-crusher (n.) under gravel, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 172: The busiest bee that ever buzzed would have nothing on you as a honey gatherer!
at honey, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 116: ‘I think he’s full of hops,’ remarked Johnell. ‘These gobs have been stringin’ me all the way across.’.
at full of hop under hop, n.3
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 292: Put a little iodine on his leg where I gave him that hypo!
at hypo, n.2
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 240: ‘Here’s an Irish Rose for ye, ye blagyard!’ muttered Dugan, and hurled a stone at the shadowy form.
at Irish rose (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 25: What kind of shootin’ iron you got there?
at shooting iron, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 87: The word ‘jawbone,’ literally translated, means ‘credit’ [...] From this meaning, the word has been shaded to mean anything not complete, such as a jawbone cook, a jawbone non-com, a jawbone shavetail, etc.
at jawbone, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 296: They’ll slip him a big jolt of castor oil.
at jolt, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 13: Jugheads brayed.
at jughead, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 129: One o’ them lime-juicer M.P.’s like to skewer me with a bayonet!
at lime-juicer, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 49: ‘Old Man is hit!’ he thought, but the major still stayed in the saddle.
at old man, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 113: There was a hook-pot at the other end of the grating, so that the watch could have a mug-up.
at mug-up, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 172: Do you think the Boche will let us get away with that? Not on your tintype.
at not on your tintype, phr.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 53: ‘Ain’t you the nuts!’ said Stuffy enviously.
at nuts, the, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 28: Them spiks’ll sashay right in here to mortify us.
at sashay, v.
[US] (con. WWI) L. Nason A Corporal Once 221: These sausage-spoilers jumped into us from the parados.
at sausage-eater (n.) under sausage, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 292: I’ll give him a shot.
at shot, n.1
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 13: A spik fought with his wife.
at spic, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 53: That blank-dashed, cross-cut, blanket-branded, tinhorn, two-for-a-nickel, son of a mangy coyote.
at two-for-a-nickel (adj.) under two, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) L. Nason A Corporal Once 13: A phonograph yawped.
at yawp, v.
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