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[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 42: Pipe down, you animals.
at animal, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 87: If you think this baby will wait that long on any guy, you’re all wet.
at baby, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 89: She anchored in Guantánamo Bay [...] and her bluejackets swarmed at once over the side.
at bluejacket, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 109: Billie Bean [...] roared like a lion, caught up a bung-starter and came into action.
at bung-starter (n.) under bung, n.2
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 42: ‘They may give us a shot ... no such luck, though.’ ‘Aw, they might – at ten to one, if they thought we had our pants down’.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 111: Say, one guy was all set to massage your dome wit’ a table leg.
at dome, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 156: Me and my boyfriend will take Scotch [...] and don’t be laying any of that embalming fluid off on me.
at embalming fluid, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 189: Recruitin’ officer that picked that fish will undoubtedly go to everlastin’ hell.
at everlasting, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 167: A service .45 knocks a man down, anywhere it hits him.
at forty-five, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 12: They’s built like a destroyer – long an’ sharp [...] Haven’t got flat noses an’ gourd-heads like a cawn-fiel’ nigger down South.
at gourd-head (n.) under gourd, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 206: They have an Indian word for it that means about the same thing as ‘grape-vine telegraph’.
at grapevine telegraph (n.) under grapevine, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 159: Our gang hangs out here regular.
at hang out, v.1
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 156: Quiet night, Gert: Major, what’ll it be?
at what will you have?, phr.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 3: You guys was all moanin’ because you couldn’t get Heinie in the open.
at Heinie, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 164: It’s Charley, and he’s all hopped up.
at hopped (up), adj.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 90: Aw – knock it off!
at knock it off!, excl.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 112: Know who had him? That Limey son of a ---.
at limey, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 111: Say, one guy was all set to massage your dome wit’ a table leg.
at massage, v.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 98: Strike me blind if it ain’t a tike.
at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 186: Lay offa Bozo, you low moocher – I got seconds on that butt myself.
at moocher, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 159: The poor oil-can got it from a bootlegger in the Black Belt.
at oil can (n.) under oil, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 42: That’s the way they’ll come, if there’s one savvy soldier among ’em.
at savvy, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 111: Damfino. Tell you what I did. ‘You Scowegian bastard,’ I says.
at Scowegian, adj.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 186: Lay offa Bozo, you low moocher – I got seconds on that butt myself.
at seconds, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 140: Shake a hoof, you cat-whiskered cabrones!
at shake a hoof (v.) under shake, v.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 87: It’s time to shove off now.
at shove off (v.) under shove, v.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 71: Plain fool! [...] I had to send Sergeant Hamilton out there to secure that flank, an’ the slant-head got himself killed.
at slanthead, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 101: Tike the bloody starch out uv any uv ’em if y’ hold they heads under water a bit.
at take the starch out of (v.) under starch, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 168: The word’s been out for you since last night. The Old Man wants to talk to you.
at put the word out on (v.) under word, the, n.
[US] (con. 1918) J.W. Thomason Red Pants 77: Well, anyway, you didn’t give me any wash about wantin’ to be a sister to me.
at wash, n.2
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