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[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 144: My parents are still kickin’ around, still arguin’.
at kick around, v.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 84: They were carrying me out to the medevac bird [i.e. helicopter].
at bird, n.1
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 96: Hey, GI, you want my sister, beaucoo boom boom.
at boom-boom, n.3
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 69: I’d rather have nine potheads than one boozer.
at boozer, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 147: I smoked grass and took BTs, but I never got stoned in the field.
at BTs, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 43: The leeches are like leather, the only way to kill them is with cigarettes or bug juice.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 64: They tried to put us on detail, but we could bug out.
at bug out, v.1
[US] C. Browne Body Shop 92: He used to bum rides on the railroads.
at bum a ride (v.) under bum, v.3
[US] C. Browne Body Shop 100: It’s a bummer thing that a guy like Joe gets killed.
at bummer, adj.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 84: The lieutenant was cracked. He’d never seen contact [...] He just couldn’t handle it.
at cracked, adj.
[US] C. Browne Body Shop 15: You guys don’t know crap about prison.
at crap, n.1
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 124: You ever see someone who’s been napalmed? [...] they call them ‘Krispy Krackers’.
at crispy (critter), n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 35: Three months after I was in Nam I got a Dear John from my girl.
at Dear John, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 28: I can still smell the smell, the dink smell.
at dink, adj.2
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 22: I couldn’t ditch out, it would tear the old man apart.
at ditch out (v.) under ditch, v.1
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 28: A pretty girl in a short blue skirt [...] Eyes dog her.
at dog, v.1
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 148: My CO was kind of a dork. He got us lost all the time, couldn’t keep the troop up.
at dork, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 55: This place really eats it.
at eat it, v.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 155: Keep it down, man, old farthead’ll hear.
at fart-head (n.) under fart, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 147: They tell you flat out how it is.
at flat-out, adv.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 144: I was caught once for talking Asthmadorm. I was really messed up [...] flipped out.
at flip out, v.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 92: He was a study freak, so it was always [farm] work or study.
at -freak, sfx
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 31: There are so many goof-offs in the army.
at goof-off, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 147: Ninety per cent of the company are probably heads, but don’t smoke in the field.
at head, n.
[US] C. Browne Body Shop 90: It’s nights like these I wouldn’t mind a head smack. [...] In Nam, I was sniffing two vials a day.
at head smack, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 60: We had a lot of revivals. Holy Roller revivals.
at Holy Roller, n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 136: When the nurse found out about the reds she turned us in.
at turn in, v.2
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 42: Take it easy, boys, and good luck.
at take it easy under take it, v.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 144: In high school I started being a JD, I stole cars, robbed houses.
at j.d., n.
[US] in C. Browne Body Shop 19: We got caught [...] I thought for sure I’d go to Juvey Hall.
at juvie, adj.
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