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Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man choose

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[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 25: I’m a candy-ass nature lover.
at candy-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 4: I was one of those kids who thought that the sun shone out of his ass.
at think the sun shines out of someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 137: He isn’t a firebreathing asskicker type like me.
at ass-kicker, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 133: That veteran is jacked up. His ass is right up next to his shoulders when we talk.
at get one’s ass on one’s shoulder(s) under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 19: I’d get right in a guy’s face when I ate his ass.
at eat someone’s ass off/out under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 201: If I ever saw one of my Marines do that in the field, I’d have my foot so far up his ass, it would hit his heart.
at put one’s foot in/up someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 43: Those fat-assed cocksuckers that you saw so often back in the world.
at fat-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 26: I’m hot shit; Billy Joe Bad-Ass himself.
at Billy Bad-Ass, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 14: ‘What the fuck did you join the Marine Corps for, asshole.’ I’d ask them.
at asshole, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 78: At one point the Corps tries to beef up security on the hills by bringing in guard dogs.
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 3: I needed to have my bell rung early so that I could get on with life.
at ring someone’s bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 120: I think I save some of the officers I bench.
at bench, v.2
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 118: You gonna punch back or boogie the fuck out?
at boogie, v.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 107: On Main Street you see flyboys, Seabees, and sundry characters.
at fly-boy, n.2
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 71: I take a cup of brew and go sit on top of my bunker.
at brew, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 90: Insect repellent smells like kerosene. I pour slick, oily bug juice all over myself.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 15: Always leave yourself a bug-out route.
at bug out, v.1
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 112: A Marine colonel also on board goes completely bullshit.
at bullshit, adj.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 118: We [...] have good fields of fire laid out. We can burn ’em.
at burn, v.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 124: It is a one-day march back. A cakewalk.
at cakewalk, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 31: [Hill] 881 North is Mr. Charles’s fire base.
at Charlie, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 154: Bravo sent out another mortar company to assist. It got chewed up by concentrated mortar fire.
at chew up, v.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 106: You can’t expect to just turn a killer on and off [...] He’s not going to be able to chew ass one minute and sit quietly [...] the next.
at chew (on) someone’s ass (v.) under chew, v.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 27: What a relief war is. All the chicken shit is over.
at chickenshit, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 103: Even so, before Vietnam you’d hear shit about black guys not having it when the chips were down.
at when the chips are down under chip, n.2
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 64: You always wonder whether you’ll choke until you’ve had that time [i.e. under fire].
at choke, v.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 119: He comes up [...] with this big shit-eating grin on his face like he’s just won some circle-jerk contest.
at circle jerk, n.
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 128: We know that if we are hit, we’ll get our clocks cleaned.
at get one’s clock cleaned (v.) under clock, n.1
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 27: ‘How about commanding Delta Company?’ he asks. I almost come in my pants.
at come in one’s pants (v.) under come, v.1
[US] (con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 131: R&R is weird for me. I can’t come down.
at come down, v.3
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