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[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 I am out of hospital now, and almost ready for another bang at Jerry.
at bang, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Me an’ Hank [...] hadn’t collected us nothin’ more than boocoo pay stoppages an’ extra doses of kitchen fatigues.
at beaucoup, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 He turned out the cat’s Mac after we got him trained.
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 When a feller is packin’ a actin’ stripe on his arm he’s the one what H.Q. is goina come down on.
at come down on, v.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 I’m afraid I’m deucedly crocked up, ol’ man.
at crocked, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 The lieutenant tips up the little flask again, an’ then I had to brighten up for the flask was soon dead.
at dead, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 I’m afraid I’m deucedly crocked up, ol’ man.
at deucedly, adv.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Them ol’ No-man’s Land pirates was doin’ the heavy dog on the officer’s fancy smokes.
at do the dog (v.) under dog, n.2
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 If you hadn’t used your fist with such top-hole effect, I believe that beggar would have got me.
at top-hole, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Jerry had suddenly got the hump.
at get the hump (v.) under hump, n.1
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 That little devil of a lieutenant had tracked up a whole Jerry gun-post.
at Jerry, adj.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 If this guy was goina giggle out loud on patrol, we figured we was settin’ pretty for a na-poo any ol’ time.
at napoo, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 He’s some big pum-kins, an’ we got him all wrong.
at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 They tell me he’s a reg’lar cissy: one o’ them slap-yer-wrist, awfter-noon-tea artists.
at sissy, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 So we unlimbers our gats an’ took a streak acrost.
at take a streak (v.) under streak, n.
[US] (con. WWI) H.F. Cruikshank ‘So This Is Flanders!’ Battle Stories July 🌐 Them scout guys what was under my care insisted I wet that danged stripe out at Poperinghe.
at wet, v.
[US] L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 Aw, he gave me a callin’ down about somethin’ — that’s all.
at calldown, n.
[US] L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 Thugs like you have got to dope yourselves up before you find the guts to go through with anything.
at dope, v.1
[US] L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 Thugs like you have got to dope yourselves up before you find the guts to go through with anything.
at dope up (v.) under dope, v.1
[US] L. Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 If only I had a gat in my mitt I’d take them krauts.
at kraut, n.
[US] Llewellyn Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 For the love of Pete! [...] You here again?
at for the love of Mike! (excl.) under love, n.
[US] Llewellyn Hughes ‘Gangster in Khaki’ in Battle Stories 🌐 This is no place to be petticoat-dreaming or thinking of the days back home.
at petticoat, n.
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