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[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 252: The conversation shifted to a discussion of cadet military rank and how to be appointed to it. ‘Neatness.’ [...] ‘A.K.’ing.’.
at a.k., v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 146: I’m not so hard up I have to mess around with a hare-lipped hag.
at mess about, v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 77: Ante up, guys! Ante up!
at ante (up), v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 175: What right has a freshman to win ninety bucks off a senior? You tell me that and I’ll kiss your tail in the middle of the quadrangle.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 166: ‘Don’t let me interfere,’ said Munro. ‘It’s none of my ash can.’.
at ashcan, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 35: Then Hagan asked him how he’d like it if there wasn’t any more ass-cutting for a whole month. [Ibid.] 202: I guess I’ll have to cut his ass this afternoon when we go off guard.
at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 202: ‘That’s enough back talk,’ said the O.D.
at back-talk, n.
[US] C. Willingham End As A Man 252: They were talking about syphilitic spots when Wintermine interrupted to describe an odd disease known as the blue balls.
at blue balls (n.) under balls, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1963) 157: That ought to get the credit away from all the other gangs, the Bunghole Buddies included. [Ibid.] 75: Last year we didn’t do a damn thing. Then the Bunghole Buddies come along with that stuffed bobcat.
at bunghole buddy, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 138: Who cares whether you’re free or locked in a bug-house? You’re crazy.
at bughouse, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1963) 157: That ought to get the credit away from all the other gangs, the Bunghole Buddies included. [Ibid.] 75: Last year we didn’t do a damn thing. Then the Bunghole Buddies come along with that stuffed bobcat.
at bunghole buddy (n.) under bunghole, n.1
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 146: You see that old grandma over there? Well, she’s burning.
at burn, v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 108: That god-damned old ... let him come around here and chew his yap at me.
at chew, v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 100: You’re both acting like chicken-shits [...] What are you afraid of?
at chickenshit, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 36: Come off that crap. Keep your jaw shut.
at come off, v.1
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 75: Follow my lead and we’ll cob brother Black Gatt.
at cop, v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 126: They use to call him Georgia cracker because he and his pa bought eight hundred niggers in Georgia.
at cracker, n.3
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 40: Oh, crap on the whole thing.
at crap on (v.) under crap, v.2
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 158: Well, by crap, they’re going to transfer me too.
at crap!, excl.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 193: Because of you we’re up Snot River without a paddle.
at up the creek (without a paddle) under creek, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 46: Boy, he looks like he’s croaked.
at croaked, adj.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1963) 37: The goddam bastard treats me like a hound [...] What have I done to rate a godblasted curve like that.
at curve, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 158: Don’t get your dauber up, let me explain.
at dauber, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 138: You’ve got verbal diarrhoea, with these journals, notes, speeches, and things.
at verbal diarrhoea, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1963) 76: He dressed okay, not like a dirtdobber, or the way a nigger’ll dress.
at dirt-dobber (n.) under dirt, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 108: ‘Well, what do you know?’ said Wilson softly.
at what do you know?, phr.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 109: Did you hear me. I ate dirt and apologised to that bastard.
at eat dirt (v.) under eat, v.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 189: And he’s really a nice egg, too.
at good egg, n.
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 141: Your tongue seems to be flapping.
at flap one’s mouth (v.) under flap, v.4
[US] C. Willingham End as a Man (1952) 166: You frosh can come to me when you’ve got problems—we’ll sit down and talk about them.
at frosh, n.
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