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[US] Letter 18 May in Edelman Dear America (1985) 107: This is the usual approach of a bar-hog! [...] A girl will be sitting next to you and she’ll begin with ‘Hello. What is your name?’.
at bar-hog (n.) under bar, n.2
[US] letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) n.d. 254: We got a lot of ‘Newbies’ (replacements) in our company.
at newbie, n.
[US] letter 5 Sept. in Edelman Dear America (1985) 179: I said bul----!, that I wasn’t hurt that bad and he had to stay at his gun.
at bullshit!, excl.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 8 Feb. 153: That cozy spot known as the ‘Pink Pussycat,’ a combo bachelor officer quarters and social club.
at combo, n.2
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 5/6 Oct. 69: The dink that threw it got knocked down with the blast from the M-79. [...] the rest of the dinks got away.
at dink, n.2
[US] letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 23 Mar. 171: Dear Mom & Pop: Guess what! They nailed me yesterday [...] but there’s nothing to worry about. I got scratched by a piece of shrapnel.
at nail, v.
[US] letter 8 Feb. in Edelman Dear America (1985) 153: The beach formed by the bay in town is a real stinker, resulting from all sorts of debris.
at stinker, n.1
[US] in Edelman letter Dear America (1985) 49: Number 1 means real good and Number 10 means real bad in pidgin Vietnamese-English. Other handy phrases [...] are: titi – very little; boo koo (a bastardization of beaucoup) – very much.
at beaucoup, adv.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 31 Jan. 81: Hell, I’m only taking it one day at a time now – leaving it up to the Big Referee in the Sky.
at big boss, the, n.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) Apr. 49: In pidgin Vietnamese-English [...] handy phrases [...] are: titi – very little; boo koo (a bastardization of beaucoup) – very much; boom boom – whore.
at boom-boom (girl) (n.) under boom-boom, n.3
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 10 May 178: I feel like a crudball leaving my men.
at crudball, n.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 30 Jan. 92: This morning the helos from Vinh Long went out and greased 95 of the SOBs.
at grease, v.5
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 31 Jan. 81: Sometimes it gets pretty hairy in this motherfucker.
at motherfucker, n.
[US] Letter 30 Jan. in Edelman Dear America (1985) 82: Come October ’68 I’m gonna [...] watch you put a match to this piece of crap.
at piece of shit, n.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 31 Jan. 82: Another month shot to shit. See ya pronto.
at shot to pieces (adj.) under shot, adj.
[US] letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 3 Jan. 92: I’ll drill a round into one of those yellow heads.
at yellow head (n.) under yellow, adj.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 13 Aug. 216: The higher-ranking Vietnamese grabble for the rake-off and black market profits.
at grabble, v.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 27 Apr. 155: I think he was up on pot.
at up, adv.
[US] Letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 29 Jan. 256: It is only reasonable to fear being zapped over here, it is unreasonable to be more afraid of being zapped in the last few weeks of one’s tour.
at zapped, adj.
[US] letter in Edelman Dear America (1985) 6 Sept. 150: The supposed ‘pot heads’ are much easier to work with, and more pleasant [...] and more intelligent than the redneck faction of boozers!
at pothead, n.2
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