1918 E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 267: I was detailed to a good squadron near the ‘Big Smoke’.at Big Smoke, n.
1918 E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 289: I went back and resumed the ‘chin-chin’ with Kerr and the other boys.at chin, n.2
1918 E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 334: Conked. A new word which is taken from the Russian language and which means stopped or killed.at conk, v.2
1918 E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 285: I had the consolation of knowing that so far I was not ‘pushing up the daisies’.at push up (the) daisies, v.
1918 E.M. Roberts Flying Fighter 210: Cameron [...] had the habit of calling the French ‘puddle jumpers,’ on account of their excitability.at puddlejumper, n.