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[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 257: We’ll close it so tight you’ll never in your frigging four-eff life be able to open her again. [Ibid.] 258: You fat four-eff bastard.
at 4-F, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 233: He half-supported his bleached blond and bosomy wife who had already had a few too many.
at have a few (v.) under few, a, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 308: Maybe they’ll catch up with us in some Navy veteran’s retirement home years from now, when we’ve swallowed the anchor.
at swallow the anchor (v.) under anchor, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 356: Drunk as slobs, playing grabass with the greasy gigolos.
at play grab-ass (v.) under grab-ass, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 245: He swears she’s working this B-joint. The Oriole.
at b-joint, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 240: A salty swashbuckling ballsy pirate.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 255: Another shot, Fatty, and quit beating your gums.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 444: Midway’s beefed up with enough fighters and B-17s.
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 220: A bastard son of a cheap two-bit ward-heeling bitch in a Brooklyn slum.
at two-bit, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 40: She was screaming blue murder.
at blue murder, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 32: Once this bucket gets under way I doubt that her damaged deck and hull plates can stand the strain.
at bucket, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 256: ‘What ship?’ ‘Kearny. A tin can.’.
at tin-can, n.2
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 259: Don’t pull that GI chickenshit on me.
at chickenshit, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 19: Captain Paige’s drink. Chop chop!
at chop-chop!, excl.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 215: Damn it, Harrison, you’ll get cockeyed drunk.
at cock-eyed, adj.2
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 338: No matter what you said, they’d cockalize you.
at cockalize, v.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 154: I watched those Nips joyride in and out, machine-gunning the men. Cold-cocked murder.
at cold-cocked, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 166: I’ve cumshawed every fighting ship I could from the Atlantic Command and they’re squawking like hell.
at cumshaw, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 242: He also gave me this store foot. And the deep six to a shipful of men.
at deep six, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 433: I’m out of gas, fellows. I’m ditching.
at ditch, v.2
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 78: Haven’t seen her in a dog’s age.
at dog’s age (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 386: We sure as hell don’t want any of our ODs doping off.
at dope off (v.) under dope, v.1
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 345: A prostitute? Running around dropping my drawers for a fee?
at drop one’s drawers (v.) under drop, v.1
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 267: His father’s newly won commander’s cap bright with its ‘scrambled eggs’ on the black visor.
at scrambled eggs, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 108: I know every man jack of you will do his duty.
at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 241: To think I’d see the day a lousy feather merchant jaygee’s got to help me put my shoes on.
at feather merchant (n.) under feather, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 349: He’s the smartest flack on the Strip.
at flak, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 245: Nobody ever tells Beauty what a public piece she once was because he is such a four-oh Joe. [Ibid.] 249: You’re looking four-oh, Maude.
at forty, adj.2
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 118: ‘He sounds funny, sir.’ ‘What do you mean, funny?’ ‘Giggling. Like a schoolgirl.’.
at funny, adj.2
[US] (con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 215: Slack off, Rollo. At the rate you’re winning friends here, this hotel’ll go under.
at go under, v.
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