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The Dirty Dozen choose

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[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 79: Strip down to your bare asses for a shortarm.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 195: Go for the shinbones [...] and let nature take over . . . ass over teakettle!
at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
[US] (con. 1930) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 355: It wasn’t really what you’d call a bookie joint.
at bookie joint, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 234: Fresh young poontang [...] alookin fust fuh Ahchuh Magit t’break em in.
at break (someone) in (v.) under break, v.1
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 137: If I’d pushed Colonels around like you [...] I’d be a buck-assed Private.
at buck-assed (adj.) under buck, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 152: He might have laughed at Franko’s buddy-buddy act.
at buddy-buddy, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 235: Slots an cahds an craps an evuhbody playin thuh bug.
at bug, n.4
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 114: Just another dogfaced sucker.
at dogface (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 393: Breed looked [...] as if he might be forced to eat crow any second.
at eat boiled crow (v.) under eat, v.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 361: You were futzing around with the gun.
at futz, v.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 322: Keep your mouth shut, White! [...] This isn’t a gabfest!
at gabfest (n.) under gab, v.
[US] (con. 1930) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 356: Jewboy! Ginzo! Polack! Heinie!
at ginzo, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 155: Stuff like this is gonna goof it and you’re gonna be back beind the eightball.
at goof, v.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 33: You holy-rolling son-of-a-bitch, you’re the worst of all!
at holy-rolling, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 116: He had never wanted for money for [...] lathering up some dame.
at lather up (v.) under lather, v.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 359: I’ve always been glad it was me and not some meathead you talked to.
at meathead, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 497: There’s a few old mopsies I can put you onto.
at mopsy, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 150: Whatever the hangman was doing there, the necktie party was off.
at necktie party (n.) under necktie, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 149: That weasel who liked somebody’s pratboy.
at prat-boy (n.) under prat, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 92: ‘How would you like to get out of here?’ ‘Stop pullin’ my pud, will ya?’.
at pull someone’s pud (v.) under pud, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 223: That’s right, buddy. It’s put up or shut up.
at put up or shut up under put up, v.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 77: Gordon would bet anything he was a Reb.
at Reb, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 321: That’s all for tonight, gentlemen [...] Sack time.
at sack time (n.) under sack, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 293: Take a guard with you, Corporal, and shag after them!
at shag, v.2
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 56: You know what is yahrtzeit, you shagetz you.
at shaygets, n.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 25: They figured him for another guard with a tough-shit assignment.
at tough shit, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 353: The girl was found naked, raped and with a surgical knife up her whatsis.
at whatsit, n.
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