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[US] S. Terkel Good War 390: He was a kind of half-past-eight guy anyway. I don’t know what the hell he was in there for, but he was supposed to be shot. I think he killed another GI.
at half past eight, adj.
[US] S. Terkel Good War 306: Know what they did? They made him a lieutenant colonel and me a captain. Ain’t that a fuck?
at fuck, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) in S. Terkel Good War 244: I remember young girls in three, arm in arm, shuffling along the pavement in their saddle shoes. They were called Victory girls.
at V-girl, n.
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