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The Gunner choose

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[UK] (con. WWII) W. Stevens Gunner 63: They got some motherin big idea. Them mechanics’re working breakass down the line.
at break-ass (adv.) under break, v.1
[UK] (con. WWII) W. Stevens Gunner 125: It’s a rest camp for all the crap-outs.
at crap-out, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) W. Stevens Gunner 63: Some of the feather-merchants throw five- and ten-dollar bills.
at feather merchant (n.) under feather, n.
[UK] (con. WWII) W. Stevens Gunner 63: You can’t keep formation now without some recruit jockey slicing your tail off.
at jockey, n.2
[UK] W. Stevens Gunner 217: Oney a month, and here I am [...] sittin around with a rifle up my ass guardin some pisshole headquarters.
at pisshole, adj.
[UK] (con. WWII) W. Stevens Gunner 63: They don’t want any more of these sad sacks.
at sad sack, n.
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