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[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 76: I was the bag man. They allowed me to carry the money because of my temperament.
at bagman, n.
[US] W. Terry Bloods (1985) 5: I had an Indian for a platoon commander who hated Indians. He used to call Indians blanket ass.
at blanket-ass (n.) under blanket, n.
[US] W. Terry Bloods (1985) 9: You had worked so hard during the day [...] you were just bombed out.
at bombed out, adj.1
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 5: When I got out of the brig, they put me in recon.
at brig, n.
[US] W. Terry Bloods (1985) 5: We had a Southerner from Arkansas that liked to call you chocolate bunny and Brillo head. That kind of shit.
at brillohead, n.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 26: A little Coke girl would show up with Coca-Cola. And also some broads would show.
at broad, n.2
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 18: He ended up giving me an Article 15 for disrespect. And I got busted one rank and fined $25.
at bust, v.1
[US] (con. 1965) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 9: The first time I killed somebody close up was when we was tailing Charlie on a patrol somewhere around Danang.
at Charlie, n.
[US] W. Terry Bloods (1985) 5: We had a Southerner from Arkansas that liked to call you chocolate bunny and Brillo head. That kind of shit.
at chocolate bunny (n.) under chocolate, adj.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 21: I cracked him, because it just ran through my mind it would be either him or me. I just fired from the hip.
at crack, v.1
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 57: Joe was an all right guy from Georgia [...] If you were to see him the first time, you would just say that’s a redneck, ridge-runnin’ cracker.
at cracker, n.3
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 33: [of military service] What y’all talking about [...] You fired guns from five miles away and talking ’bout flashbacks?
at flashback, n.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 49: Davis screamed, ‘Nigger, stop half-steppin’. We gotta move.’.
at half step, v.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 4: There was only two black guys in my platoon [...] So I hung with the Mexicans.
at hang with (v.) under hang, v.4
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 11: With a BCD [bad conduct discharge], nothing was happenin’.
at happen, v.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 11: They hipped me to terms like ‘exploitation’ and ‘oppression.’.
at hip, v.2
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 22: Then we would get word that we were going to the L.Z. that was really hot.
at hot, adj.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 18: I joined the Army [...] My father was not too hot about it.
at hot, adj.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 25: A lot of gray guys who wasn’t racially hung up would be there.
at hung up, adj.
[US] (con. 1965) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 3: Better knock that shit off, boy.
at knock it off, v.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 33: He’s a major. He’s reading my jacket, and he’s looking with his glasses at me.
at jacket, n.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 29: I bought me a half gallon gin, and I knocked it off.
at knock off, v.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 5: My leg is really messed up. I’m hoppin’.
at messed (up), adj.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 58: If I just wanted to be a real nasty person, then I probably could have just ripped off South Vietnamese civilians for practice.
at rip off, v.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 29: We’d just sit down and just rap. Rap about music, the girls, what was happening in the world.
at rap, v.1
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 18: I got busted one rank and fined $25. That was just another nail in the coffin to keep me from reuping.
at re-up, v.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 55: The second lieutenant [...] he was dumb, because he would volunteer us for all kinds of shit details to get brownie points.
at shit detail (n.) under shit, n.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 26: And if they [i.e. prostitutes] got disease, they’d get shots and wouldn’t be able to work until they were clear.
at shot, n.1
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 11: This riot [...] started over some white guys using a bunch of profanity in front of some sisters.
at sister, n.
[US] (con. 1964–73) W. Terry Bloods (1985) 41: He put the spunk back into Taylor. Davis could intimidate you into not dying.
at spunk, n.
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