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Sergeant Eadie choose

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[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 113: Won’t he burn yuh for beatin’ it?
at burn, v.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 46: ‘What’s all the chew about?’ asked Jake [...] ‘The top kick has been bawling me out,’ said Eadie.
at chew, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 11: I’ve held on to ’em like grim death to a dead chink for nearly a year and I’d hate to lose ’em now.
at like death to a... under death, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 8: I invested ten nice clean green ones.
at green one (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 47: And then to have his hump crawled by the first sergeant!
at crawl someone’s hump (v.) under hump, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 78: Put ’em in the mill!
at mill, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 46: You and that big onion head been layin’ up somewhere!
at onionhead, n.
[US] (con. 1918) L. Nason Sergeant Eadie 321: Hurray! Send her down, Davie, no drill today!
at send her down Hughie under send, v.
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