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[UK] ‘I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 19: Don’t want a bullet up me arsehole, / Don’t want me bollocks shot off.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] ‘Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 26: When we hear you calling – ‘Show a leg!’ / Don’t forget to wake me in the morning / And bring me a nice cup of tea.
at show a leg!, excl.
[UK] ‘Our Windy Sergeant’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 27: Early in the morning when his boys are standing-to, / He’s fucking round the barracks with his four-by-two.
at fuck about, v.
[UK] ‘A Note On Drumming & Bugling’ M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 57: Privates’ wives get fuck-all at all, / But hot cocks up their belly.
at belly, n.
[UK] ‘Alex On The Med’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 70: The wogs they all clifty by day and by night.
at cliftie, v.
[UK] ‘A Note On Drumming And Bugling’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 57: Stand to attention you raw-arsed recruit. / You’ve gone and made a fuck-up of the general salute.
at fuck-up, n.
[UK] ‘Tobruk Song’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 80: I’m fucked off, fucked off, / Fucked off as can be.
at fucked off (adj.) under fucked, adj.1
[UK] ‘A Note On Drumming And Bugling’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 57: He’ll never go sick no more. / The poor fucker is dead.
at fucker, n.
[UK] ‘Thanks For The Memory’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 72: Yankee beer that’s far too dear, and gives us all the jumps.
at jumps, the, n.
[UK] ‘Thanks For The Memory’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 72: In the Kiwi bar we’ve wetted.
at Kiwi, adj.
[UK] ‘Queen Farida’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 72: Mungaree bardin.
at mungaree, n.
[UK] ‘Oh! Fucking Tobruk’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 79: The fucking pommies cramp your style.
at pommie, n.
[UK] ‘A Note On Drumming And Bugling’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 57: Stand to attention, you raw-arsed recruit.
at raw, adj.
[UK] ‘Ali Baba Morshead’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 81: Then Rommel’s stonkered.
at stonkered, adj.
[UK] ‘Thanks For The Memory’ M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 72: In the Kiwi bar we’ve wetted.
at wet, v.
[UK] ‘Thanks For The Memory’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 72: We’ve drunk wog beer.
at wog, adj.
[UK] ‘Lagos Lagoon’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 56: He fired all his ammo while well out of range.
at ammo, n.
[UK] ‘Lagos Lagoon’ M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 55: We’re belting black velvet around Lagos Lagoon [...] You can get a good grind for a piece of PK.
at belt, v.
[UK] ‘At Enugu, Gold Coast’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 53: We’re a shower of bastards.
at shower of shit (n.) under shower, n.
[UK] ‘Lagos Lagoon’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 55: He got grit in his barrel though getting a stand, / And eased it down with a belt in the sand.
at stand, n.
[UK] M. Page ‘Lagos Lagoon’ Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 55: One night they went out to the native hot spots, / Pinching black udders and feeling black twats.
at twat, n.
[UK] ‘Lagos Lagoon’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 55: One night they went out to the native hot spots, / Pinching black udders and feeling black twats.
at udders, n.
[UK] ‘Frightfully G.H.Q.’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 111: We’ve even drunk cups of what NAAFI calls ‘chai’.
at cha, n.1
[UK] ‘In The Moonlight’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 122: By Christ all fucking mighty.
at fucking, adj.
[UK] ‘The Song Of The Lagos Bar-Girls’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 98: Me no likee English soldier. / Yankee soldier come ashore. / Yankee soldier plenty money. / Me no jigajig for you no more.
at jig-a-jig, v.
[UK] M. Page ‘The Twats In The Ops Room’ Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 114: What we do object to are those fucking Ops Room twats.
at twat, n.
[UK] ‘Wait Till You Get To New Guinea’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 178: Yes, they’ve got the boong well beaten.
at boong, n.
[UK] ‘My Faithless English Rose’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 121: Instead of love and kisses, the girls gave me the breeze.
at give someone the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[UK] M. Page ‘Wait Till You Get To New Guinea’ Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 173: The playboys of the desert, / We lived like flaming dukes.
at flaming, adj.1
[UK] ‘Horseferry Road’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 114: Fuck you! I just came from the trenches in France, / Where [...] brave men were dying for shit-bags like you.
at fuck you!, excl.
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