1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 206: The MP raiders refused to be bought off by the crapshooting awols.at A.W.O.L., n.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 319: He studied her through spectacles made of the clearest champagne..at beer goggles, n.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 244: Two stockade birds who could put their clutch on ten thousand pesos.at bird, n.1
1952 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.
1952 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.
1952 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.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 220: A few more drinks and Tommy would be a dead pigeon.at dead pigeon (n.) under dead, adj.
1952 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.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 228: ‘Let’s see what’s coming into Fliptown, Captain.’.at Fliptown (n.) under Flip, n.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 327: ‘S’my money.’ ‘I’m only borrowing it, you crazy goofhead.’.at goof, n.1
1952 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
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 259: You could never go wrong appealing to the larceny in everybody’s heart.at larceny, n.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 222: He was the prize jerk to louse himself up with whiskey.at louse up, v.
1952 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.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 211: Business before pleasure, peckerhead!at peckerhead (n.) under pecker, n.2
1952 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
1952 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.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 218: Yeah, stockade’s the wrong screwen place to make a peso!at screwing, adj.
1952 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.
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 318: Only Blacky was without a woman. Not that Blacky was aware of his stag status.at stag, adj.
1952 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
1952 B. Appel Plunder (2005) 270: A straight GI girl and no fancy two-timing mestiza like Serafina.at two-timing, adj.