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[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 61: Go on, take a blow.
at blow, n.3
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 118: Don’t stand there all day, bohunk.
at bohunk, n.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 19: Go ahead. Give me the boot.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 19: I’ve fought these tin cans all the way from Villiers-Fossard.
at tin-can, n.2
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 19: That kid platoon leader? He can’t find his ass with both hands.
at can’t find one’s arse/ass with both hands under can’t..., phr.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 70: I told you Hinky-Dink’d chew your ass if you didn’t give him the word.
at chew (on) someone’s ass (v.) under chew, v.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 25: I wanted to see you too, Lawrence, so I could line your face up with your voice when we got to chewing the boot on the radio.
at chew the boot (v.) under chew, v.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 126: I sure cooled that son of a bitch.
at cool, v.3
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 61: Tell the doughs to hook up with third platoon.
at doughboy, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 118: The other man [...] looked like a priest. ‘Janowicz, you’re a fish eater. Go see what those two clowns are up to.’.
at fish-eater (n.) under fish, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 47: Bradlow’s had it, he thought. He’s a psycho.
at have had it, v.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 26: You take these people out to meet some of the honest-to-John soldiers we have around here.
at honest-to-John, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 61: Tell the doughs to hook up with third platoon.
at hook up (with), v.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 116: Your daughter is a bad girl. Keegan, you’re a bad Indian.
at Indian, n.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 19: That kid platoon leader?
at kid, adj.1
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 66: Lawrence was alarmed. ‘You think we’re being mousetrapped, you mean?’.
at mousetrap, v.
[US] (con. 1945) F. Davis Spearhead 55: She had people taped pretty well.
at taped, adv.
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