1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 68: It would have been funny to see that old shellback riding the spanker boom for giving back slack to the second mate.at backslack (n.) under back, adj.2
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 21: Hey, Duke, you’ve been with one of them! Don’t these society dames have a bit when they get that way?at have a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 74: She’s got one short leg but the perkiest pair of bits.at bits, n.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 151: The old man wasn’t letting Christianson blow any more gaff.at blow one’s top, v.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 175: Not my fault the old man logged you, Mister Samuals. I’ll do my best to break it down with the owners.at break down, v.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 150: They shuffled back, like chooks scolded with an old woman’s apron.at chook, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 45: You ruttin’ greeping gockroach! Vot vor you greep after me?at cockroach, n.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 165: I sent a hand to get my donkey’s breakfast. We rolled the old man on it.at donkey’s breakfast (n.) under donkey, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 12: I had just remembered a little bit of slit-eye I used to know in Chinatown.at slant-eye, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 11: ‘Here, dig your fishhooks into one end of the chest there, Ern.’ We swung the chest off the floor between us.at fish-hook (n.) under fish, n.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 86: Hey! stow yer gabs there, an’ let Ernie play us somethin’.at stow one’s gab (v.) under gab, n.2
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 220: Captain [...] take your rutting ship . . . stick it up your grommet!at grommet, n.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 153: A bloody fine specimen of a sailor!—look at the herring-gutted swab, mister!at herring-gutted, adj.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 21: Ah ha! So de old man he giff her some leg opener, eh?at leg-opener (n.) under leg, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 258: The bitch was mad — mad as a march hare. Absolutely loco!at loco/loca, adj.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 10: Only for that rutting Miss Miller I wouldn’t be back in this godamned louse house!at louse house (n.) under louse, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 107: Old Joe jabbed his broken stemmed pipe [...] ‘I just nicked in fer a draw . . .’.at nick, v.3
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 17: The elder held a ‘nose warmer’ between his aged, bleached lips.at nose warmer (n.) under nose, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 52: He can save his damned oats up until we get into port—like any sailor.at oats, n.2
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 21: The old man can [...] go below whenever he feels like a bit of passenger pie.at pie, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 10: ‘I bet she’ll have to open up her own little purse before we’ve been a week at sea.’ I said. ‘Don’t talk that way about her. She’s decent,’ Ern said.at purse, n.
1945 R.S. Close Love Me Sailor 209: He soared up the steps again like a rat up a shoreline.at like a rat up a drainpipe (adv.) under rat, n.1
1945 R.S. Close Love me Sailor 10: Only for that rutting Miss Miller I wouldn’t be back in this godamned louse house! [Ibid.] 258: Absolutely loco! A rutting lunatic!at rutting, adj.