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[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Joffre’ War Poems 65: He just waits and waits and waits – / Watchful Joffre! / Then he pounces – un, deux – biff! / Takes ’em right in the midriff.
at biff!, excl.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Joffre’ War Poems 67: T’other day, he thought he’d go / (Thinks, does Joffre!) / To the seaside for a blow, / Cheerful Joffre!
at blow, n.3
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Excuses’ War Poems 70: I’m indispensable, I am, I am, / And if I went the business would go flop.
at flop, v.
[UK] T.W.H. Crosland ‘Joffre’ in War Poems 67: Bulgars at the Serbian throat, / Greece behaving like the goat.
at goat, n.1
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