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A Flying Tigers Diary choose

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[US] C.R. Bond 13 Oct. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 24: The fact that he already was skunk drunk, meant that he usually ended up tossing his cookies.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] C.R. Bond 18 Nov. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 45: All of us were scheduled for our ‘short arm’ physical today.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 18 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 58: His engine cut out [...] and he went off into the boondocks and tore off his landing gear.
at boondocks, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 22 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 64: I heard that Sandy ‘busted’ Frank from being operations officer for being late with his dawn patrol flight.
at bust, v.1
[US] C.R. Bond 22 Nov. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 47: The China Hotel [...] a cat house. What a filthy joint.
at cat-house, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 13 Oct. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 24: The fact that he already was skunk drunk, meant that he usually ended up tossing his cookies.
at toss one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] C.R. Bond 20 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 77: We got in a good bull session about the graft in China [...] Everyone seems to get his cut – ‘cumshaw’.
at cumshaw, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 29 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 63: My eyes are giving me fits, conjunctivitis again.
at give someone fits (v.) under fit, n.3
[US] C.R. Bond 10 Dec. A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 53: A flock of birds in the southwest scared the hell out of us.
at scare (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 18 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 58: Kumming had been bombed this morning by ten Jap bombers.
at Jap, adj.
[US] C.R. Bond 22 Nov. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 47: Smith, equally magotty, was with him.
at maggoty, adj.
[US] C.R. Bond 26 Oct. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 32: I dressed in our formal military ‘monkey jacket’ outfits.
at monkey jacket (n.) under monkey, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 5 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 45: The Old Man was still teed off about Ricketts’s landing yesterday.
at teed off, adj.
[US] C.R. Bond 22 Nov. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 47: I found Ed Conanat really ‘out,’ and he was shooting his pistol into the sky [...] Smith, equally magotty, was with him.
at out, adv.1
[US] C.R. Bond 31 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 69: He is okay but washed out his landing gear.
at wash out, v.
[US] C.R. Bond 30 Nov. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 49: All of us were up early getting the ships ready and peaked up for the flight.
at ship, n.1
[US] C.R. Bond 12 Dec. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 54: George Burgard had a narrow escape [...] He was really shook up.
at shook up (adj.) under shook, adj.
[US] C.R. Bond 22 Nov. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 47: It seems that everyone decided to get a snoot full.
at have a snootful (v.) under snootful, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 20 Nov. A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 45: We could not say much for the RAF pilot. He did not strike us as a ‘tiger.’.
at tiger, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 28 Feb. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 120: He got one propeller tip and banged up one wheel.
at bang up, v.3
[US] C.R. Bond 5 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 94: The Jap pilot [...] ended up flying straight at me. All my guns were firing as we barreled head on at each other.
at barrel, v.2
[US] C.R. Bond 12 Feb. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 98: Several of us went on a binge tonight.
at on a binge under binge, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 12 Feb. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 98: Several of us went on a binge tonight [...] I really blew it.
at blow out, v.2
[US] C.R. Bond 2 Mar. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 122: I brought him up to date on what had transpired while he was in the boonies.
at boonies, n.
[US] C.R. Bond 5 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 71: He refers to my ship [i.e. airplane] as a bucket of bolts.
at bucket of bolts (n.) under bucket of..., n.
[US] C.R. Bond 16 Mar. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 128: Sat around shooting the bull with the Second Squadron pilots.
at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] C.R. Bond 3 June in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 183: Someone should ‘burn’ for that mission.
at burn, v.
[US] C.R. Bond 5 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 156: We couldn’t restrain ourselves from buzzing the beautiful Taj Mahal at Agra.
at buzz, v.1
[US] C.R. Bond 5 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 167: When he pulled off the ring and the burned flesh on my finger, I nearly hit the ceiling.
at hit the ceiling, v.
[US] C.R. Bond 5 Jan. in A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 134: I caught a glimpse of three aircraft to my upper right. I choked! Were they Japs? Nope!
at choke, v.
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