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[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 206: Blacky had awoled himself out of the army.
at A.W.O.L., v.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 206: The MP raiders refused to be bought off by the crapshooting awols.
at A.W.O.L., n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 243: There was more of a bang beating Blacky into line.
at bang, n.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 319: He studied her through spectacles made of the clearest champagne..
at beer goggles, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 244: Two stockade birds who could put their clutch on ten thousand pesos.
at bird, n.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 268: This is the blue-sky deal, Sarge!
at blue-sky, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 285: You hit the booze by yourself and you’ll turn into an alcoholic.
at hit the booze (v.) under booze, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 297: ‘They gave me the brush-off,’ he reported ruefully.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 231: He had become an officer and had been busted.
at bust, v.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 279: There isn’t a Chink in town who doesn’t believe everybody’s out to get him.
at Chink, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 220: A few more drinks and Tommy would be a dead pigeon.
at dead pigeon (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 277: Tommy Cruz [...] That’s not his name. He’s as much Filipino as you are. What’s his reason for giving himself a flip name?
at Flip, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 228: ‘Let’s see what’s coming into Fliptown, Captain.’.
at Fliptown (n.) under Flip, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 224: You’re not crazy wearing that fuggen uniform?
at fugging, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 327: ‘S’my money.’ ‘I’m only borrowing it, you crazy goofhead.’.
at goof, n.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 269: Maybe the wise thing would be to heel out.
at heel, v.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 218: I had to give Franny a snow job about you owing me two thousand pesos.
at snow job, n.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 259: You could never go wrong appealing to the larceny in everybody’s heart.
at larceny, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 222: He was the prize jerk to louse himself up with whiskey.
at louse up, v.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 261: The Red bastids [...] that’s what they want now – a goddam monkey revolution. [Ibid.] 303: A light voice questioned him in Tagalog. Monkey talk, he thought.
at monkey, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 211: Business before pleasure, peckerhead!
at peckerhead (n.) under pecker, n.2
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 206: Pom-pom girls, the sweethearts of any GI with ten pesos. [Ibid.] 209: He was thinking of the Manila that was a pom-pom house. [Ibid.] 219: I’ve got a deal for you. A deal in pom-pom! [Ibid.] 220: We have a party. You ask a couple of big pom-pom boys .
at pom-pom, n.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 229: If we don’t promote some MP brass hat, we might as well dump these uniforms and hide out.
at promote, v.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 278: How about one of those Russky blondes?
at Russki, n.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 218: Yeah, stockade’s the wrong screwen place to make a peso!
at screwing, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 268: Our deal in gasoline’s going to look like small beans next to the deal I’ve got lined up now.
at small beans (n.) under small, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 318: Only Blacky was without a woman. Not that Blacky was aware of his stag status.
at stag, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 224: You’da thought me stir crazy if I’d said a thing about it in the stockade.
at stir-crazy (adj.) under stir, n.1
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 221: A few more and Tommy’d be under the table.
at under the table, adj.
[US] B. Appel Plunder (2005) 270: A straight GI girl and no fancy two-timing mestiza like Serafina.
at two-timing, adj.
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