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[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 192: He always went slightly apey when he drank.
at ape, adj.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 170: What are you doing smelling around like a bird dog? [...] Trying to get a free peep show on me and Sachiko, eh?
at bird dog, n.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 186: I need my leave. The seven days Straker chiseled me out of.
at chisel, v.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 227: She’s cute as a bug’s ear.
at cute as a... (adj.) under cute, adj.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 187: The chubby exec looked up.
at exec, n.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 35: You guys in the Air Corps really have it fat.
at fat, adv.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 47: The grease-pushers in the 66th didn’t have half the work with jets that Braith had with the piston engines.
at grease pusher (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 119: ‘Sometimes have Chinese egg,’ she said. ‘You mean those thousand-year-old jobs?’.
at job, n.2
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 248: If the Wing was making a max effort, he wanted to be in on it.
at max, adj.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 247: Sachiko. My moose. Always yapping for more dough.
at moose, n.2
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 193: Anybody plays a guitar’s a goddamned nancy.
at nancy, n.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 179: This mission was a road reccy.
at recce, n.
[US] W. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 120: Take care o’ the bill, will you, ol’ buddy? I’ll square up with you later.
at square up, v.2
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