1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 170: Have a cigarette. Die of cancer. I almost give a cow’s crap.at give a shit, v.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 171: ‘You don’t have to park your ugly fat ass on the stool next to mine.’ ‘Fucking-ay-John Ditty-Bag-well-told I don’t.’.at fucking-A, adj.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 12: ‘Eighter from Decatur.’ He tosses the dice again and loses, a four and a three.at Ada from Decatur, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 159: ‘Hell, Boston is full of sailors.’ ‘Yeah, but how many of them are salt and pepper, toting two .45’s in an AWOL bag?’.at salt and pepper, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 98: ‘What’s up her ass?’ ‘Damned if I know,’ says Mule.at up someone’s arse/ass under arse, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 22: I wish I was going to Portsmouth instead of being stuck in this pig’s ass of a place.at pig’s arse, n.1
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 121: Is this the original Bad-Ass or is this some candy-ass seaman playing Scrabble at the goddam nurses’ home?at candy-ass, adj.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 142: Do you think we’re gonna stand here and be hard-assed because some dude in Norfolk forgot to endorse our orders?at hard-ass, v.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 118: Hell, it don’t make a rat’s ass to me neither.at not mean a rat’s ass (v.) under rat’s ass, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 74: But, lad, you’re talking to the original Billy Bad-Ass. [Ibid.] 7: Billy’s name, of course, is not Bad-Ass [...] Buddusky became Bad-Ass, which in navy parlance means a very tough customer.at Billy Bad-Ass, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 66: ‘Both I guess,’ says Meadows. ‘Both your sweet aunt’s ass.’.at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 98: Charlotte comes back with a Baggie in one hand and some strawberry paper in the other. ‘Grass, anybody?’.at baggie, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 3: C’mon, man, don’t break my balls, I’m just trying to get along.at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 182: That kid Meadows and his eight years for a lousy forty fucking bananas.at banana, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 33: They sure are the benies if you don’t have an education.at benies, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 51: ‘The Big Honcho,’ says Mule. ‘If he tells you to shit, you ask, “How much and what color, sir?”’.at big man (n.) under big, adj.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 75: When I was a kid I knew guys who were real Bohemians, I mean in the Blood — Bohunks.at bohunk, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 74: You two bastards are trying to drive me bug-fug in the head, right?at bug fug (adj.) under bug, n.4
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 71: ‘So how’s by you in the navy?’ ‘Same old crud.’.at how’s by you?, phr.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 28: Why you figure they put the cock to you? [...] Did you have a record before this?at put the cock to (v.) under cock, n.3
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 41: It’s colder than a witch’s tit out.at ...a witch’s tit under colder than..., adj.
1970 D. Ponicsan The Last Detail 77: Hell, I haven’t been in a brawl in a coon’s age.at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 52: ‘Well, I be goddam,’ says Mule.at I’ll be goddamned! (excl.) under god-damn, v.
1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 91: We got no place to flop tonight. Could you give us a floor?at flop, v.