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[US] Danville (VA) Bee 27 May 3/1: The U. S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all its own. For instance [...] girls are [...] ‘blimps’.
at blimp, n.1
[US] Danville (VA) Bee 27 May 3/1: The U.S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all its own. For instance [...] beans are ‘bullets’.
at bullets, n.
[US] Danville (VA) Bee 27 May 3/1: The U. S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all its own. [...] Destroyers are ‘tin cans.’.
at tin-can, n.2
[US] Danville Bee (VA) 27 May 3/1: The U. S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all its own. For instance [...] a young sailor [is] a ‘chicken.’.
at chicken, n.
[US] Danville (VA) Bee 27 May 3/1: The U.S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all its own. For instance [...] coffee is ‘joe.’.
at joe, n.4
[US] Danville (VA) Bee 27 May 3/1: The U. S. Navy has a language or a ‘slanguage’ all its own. For instance [...] hospital corps men are ‘pill rollers’.
at pill-roller (n.) under pill, n.
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