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The Thin Red Line choose

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[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 58: He’s a jerkoff. A mothergrabbing jerkoff [...] He don’t know his ass from third base.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 37: Well, here’s a real ass-breaker. I sure can collect them.
at ass-breaker (n.) under ass, n.
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 388: I don’t know what these dumbasses would do if they didn’t have me around to take care of them.
at dumb-ass, n.
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 268: He was not here for any crapped up West Point heroics, he was here because he was a brave man and a very good soldier.
at crap up (v.) under crap, v.2
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 59: And where do you find germs? In dirt, dopehead.
at dopehead (n.) under dope, n.2
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 262: And if they no longer existed, it didn’t either and was no longer important. So what the fuck?
at what the fuck!, excl.
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 38: All right, fuckface!
at fuckface, n.
[US] (con. WWII) James Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 268: There was no doubt in his hard hackpusher’s mind about which side he would be on.
at hack-pusher (n.) under hack, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 58: He’s a jerkoff. A mothergrabbing jerkoff.
at jerk-off, n.
[US] (con. WWII) J. Jones Thin Red Line (1963) 418: There were lots of queer Cooks and Bakers and such, coke sackers, sock tuckers, and cork soakers, all around the island, and everybody knew about them.
at queer, adj.
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