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Wings on my Feet choose

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[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 105: Any of you boys leave this camp without orders which means A.W.O.L. If so you gonna ketch hell.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 111: Then after ’treat call out for short arm inspection.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 114: I tells him I don’t think I ought to salute when I am mad as hell.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 93: I’m gonna buy me Winchester rifle, / An’ box o’ balls, Lawd, box o’ balls.
at ball, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 259: ‘Done laid them Heinies low.’ ‘Done bing-banged ’em on the Rhine.’.
at bing-bang, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 214: Go out try to buy French wines, dam’ vin blank, red gin, rum [...] jes’ anything we could git, if would git alcohol behind eyes.
at banged up to the eyes, phr.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 244: Aw, shet up, you big beef.
at beef, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 129: Boys gittin’ ready to play, joreein’ and big-mouth talkin’.
at big-mouthed, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 214: Go out try to buy French wines, dam’ vin blank, red gin, rum [...] jes’ anything we could git, if would git alcohol behind eyes.
at vin blong, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 104: You big bloot you, if you stood it I know I can.
at blooter, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 179: Blowed all that money in maybe in jes’ ’bout a week.
at blow, v.2
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 281: Some big black boys look like blue black, some brown like copper statue.
at blue-black (adj.) under blue, adj.6
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 32: One po’ buddy so sick throws his music box over boa’d [...] Throws box in deep rolling sea.
at box, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 164: Nobody couldn’t git his banjo ’way from him. Love to play box.
at box, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 235: I tells her blackes’ ones come from down in Florida and Mississippi, high yallers from Georgia an’ South Carolina, high browns from North Carolina an’ Virginia, an’ blue veins from up North.
at high brown, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 16: I’m a gamblin’ man, can century that money, shootin’ for my honey.
at century, v.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 140: This girl [...] Would call ’em cheap skates, signifyin’ she had handsome, highbrown soldier hero.
at cheapskate, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 93: One night in camp in France the boys got to playin’ dozen [...] Mighty ruffish game, boys talkin’ bout other boys’ folks.
at play the dozen(s) (v.) under dozens, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 130: Boys mighty hard on Sambo, callin’ him dam’, flat-footed, crippled Tiger.
at flat-footed, adj.4
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 249: Talk ’bout coloured worker bein’ lazy, ought to seen them Fritzie boys.
at Fritz, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 281: Some quality white folks on board, some po’ white trash. [...] Some half-strainers, too.
at half-strainer, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 29: I was feelin’ my hell a-risin’.
at hell, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 16: I ain’t no red shadow drinkin’ that French cognac like I is when I’m half split, ’bout high as Georgia pine wid sho’-’nuf co’n likker.
at high as a Georgia pine (adj.) under high, adj.1
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 127: One of funniest sights [...] wus little black boy ’bout five feet high knockin’ big black boy over six feet tall cold as monkey-wrench.
at knock cold (v.) under knock, v.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 13: War an’ me is buddies, fightin’s my middle name.
at middle name (n.) under middle, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 157: I walks round tellin’ her to get her a monkey man an’ make him strut his stuff.
at monkey man (n.) under monkey, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 62: Sho’ got my britches patched an’ my mutton pulled for doin’ this meaness.
at mutton, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 228: So decided to hit big boy trompin’ along. Hit him an’ looked like throwed him ’bout three ways an’ Sunday.
at nine ways from breakfast (adv.) under nine, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 177: You full o’ prunes, can’t nobody tell you nothin’.
at full of prunes under prune, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 21: Well, boys pulled him up but sho’ did rag life out of ’im.
at rag, v.1
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