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[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 19 Oct. 116: The ‘Y’ cafeteria was a dead place now.
at dead, adj.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 1 June 25: Germany says: ‘Maybe we’ll sign, but before we do [...] we present the proposals of peace as we wish them.’ Some guts!
at gut, n.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 15 July 27: Won’t it be fine though! with good things to eat, such as fried chicken and cream gravy, country sausage, good old southern biscuits smothered with country butter, coffee [...] all this transmitted to my brain and body, will cram my joy-box to overflowing and fill me full o’ pep.
at joy box (n.) under joy, n.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 24 June 27: Everything looks rather ‘caput’ [sic] at the present time.
at kaput, adj.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 19 Oct. 116: There was lots of fun on the day the ‘Y’ was feeding chicken and all the bones were thrown under the table for the hungry bunch of mutts.
at mutt, n.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 3 Sept. 127: They say he’s just a roughneck brute, in a khaki suit, a regular army man.
at roughneck, adj.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 18 Sept. 107: The boys down along the Mexican Border who are [...] keeping an eagle eye on the treacherous ‘spick’.
at spic, n.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 11 Mar. 27: A Turkish fag for breakfast, an Egyptian butt for lunch.
at butt, n.1
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 24 Feb. 87: Those ‘eggheads certain chinless chappies and fairy wonders who hid behind petticoats to avoid French mud monkey meat and slum and German machine guns’.
at chinless wonder, n.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 4 July 160: He speaks from experience [...] and he delivers his ‘jolts’ straight from the shoulder.
at straight from the shoulder, adv.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 29 Dec. 140: Buddie, lay off so many skags for a while.
at scag, n.1
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News (1981) 20 Feb. 103: Why should we help the A.W.O.L.’s in this country that are now stranded civilians!
at A.W.O.L., n.
[US] in A. Cornebise Amaroc News 123: The editor justified his riding herd on the men so closely.
at ride herd on (v.) under ride, v.
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