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[US] J.H. Burns Gallery (2004) 211: Nuttin but rear ends bouncin like Jello and milk factories under dere dresses.
at milk factory (n.) under milk, n.
[US] (con. 1942) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 184: I’m almost afraid to chugalug a drink or go out with a pretty little French girl.
at chug-a-lug, v.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 8: No, I don’t know whatall about music.
at what-all, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 60: The old song and dance, Hal thought.
at song and dance, n.1
[US] (con. 1942) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 198: Ya can shove em up if ya like.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 42: I’m here in this arsehole of the earth eating myself out and wondering what she’s doing.
at arsehole, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 334: Ya ain’t ate out nobody’s arse except Dimplepuss? Ya ain’t give none of us a bad time.
at eat someone’s ass off/out under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 87: Only the half-arsed poets invented love as a force that has nothing to do with anything.
at half-assed, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 19: The Ayrabs stood around [...] wearing G.I. mattress covers.
at Ayrab, n.
[US] (con. 1942) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 199: So I left my baby doll in Algiers for this.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 8: O my back! he said excitedly.
at my back! (excl.) under back, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 288: Ah, fungoo and ya signorinas, the patients answered.
at bah-fungoo!, excl.
[US] (con. 1942) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 195: Fressssssh! Whaddya lookin at? Didja bang yaself silly all las night?
at bang, v.1
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 92: Beaucoup GI’s and officers ended up in Parker House.
at beaucoup, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 140: What a town to cruise this is. All the belles in the States would give their eyeteeth to be in Naples tonight.
at belle, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 22: We kept on our MP brassards, and bigtimed it through Casablanca.
at big time, v.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 149: That’s one of the few facts that thrills me, old bitch that I am.
at bitch, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 153: I remember how they talked of Africa [...] and would they ever get back to Blighty.
at Blighty, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 47: There was also the largest woman in captivity [...] We called her Blockbuster.
at blockbuster, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 93: Ah, blow it ... I figure we’re going to Oran or Algiers for more of this base section life.
at blow it!, excl.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 86: Blow all that, the parachute captain said.
at blow!, excl.1
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 33: How in God’s name does a body get hold of you? Do I have to make an appointment with your receptionist?
at body, n.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 154: I [...] persuaded the Fatima to let me take pictures of her, bollocky.
at bollocky naked, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 287: This meant that every twelve hours his compass was boxed.
at box one’s/the compass (v.) under box, v.2
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 243: I’ll go and shoot the breeze with Wilma.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 134: It’s going to be brilliant here tonight, absolutely brrrrilliant [...] My God why doesn’t everybody just live for love? That’s all there is, baby. And out of bed you have to be simply brillllllliant.
at brilliant, adj.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 127: At closing time in her bar, some of her boys, a bit brilli, would cry on her shoulder and tell her that she was just like some elderly lady in Arkansas.
at brilliant, n.
[US] (con. 1942) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 173: I’m bucking for a section eight.
at buck for, v.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 243: Buck up, Guilia, said an officer [...] Life is real, life is earnest.
at buck up!, excl.
[US] (con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 292: Ya must meet thousands of V.D.’s comin through here for their shots. I’m just another one with the dirty bug.
at bug, n.4
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