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Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War choose

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[US] E. Forbes in Wilson & Geikie Memoir (1861) 176: I am obliged to ‘grind’ [...] that is, undergo a private examination with an authorized teacher or tutor.
at grind, v.
[US] E. Forbes in Wilson & Geikie Memoir (1861) 442: An account of our work here may tell upon the Welsh meeting, and stir up the leek-eaters.
at leek, n.
[US] H. Bradshaw letter in Prothero Memoir (1888) 259: With a very heavy cold on me, which muzzed my head [...] I have been very far from comfortable.
at muz, v.2
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 80: I was having a swell time watching you shit bricks.
at shit a brick, v.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 52: Now all the generals and politicians are backpedaling like all getout.
at all get out, phr.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 16: Christ there I am, eighteen years old, got my ass out on a wire, and here’s Trinh telling me to go suck an egg.
at have one’s ass in the wind under ass, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 24: Might be a lot easier if you got rid of those coffin nails.
at coffin nail, n.2
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 17: Armed to the teeth, and still couldn’t [...] fight their way out of a paper sack.
at couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag under couldn’t..., phr.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 36: What’s that got to do with anything, dildo brain?
at dildohead (n.) under dildo, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 62: What kind of person could gang-fuck some poor starving refugee in the middle of a war?
at gangfuck, v.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 12: No more American boys coming home in Glad Bags to parents wanting to know what the fuck for.
at glad bag (n.) under glad, adj.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 41: No fuckin’ women trying to play head games with you.
at head game (n.) under head, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 206: A bunch of kids [...] who didn’t know jack squat about real responsibility.
at jack squat, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 69: Geez, how come I always have to make you have fun? Lighten up, will you?
at lighten up, v.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 29: ‘Pigs,’ the Yippies had called the cops.
at pig, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 6: ‘Hey, spaceman,’ said Roger.
at spaceman (n.) under space, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 70: I handed him the squirt gun.
at squirt gun (n.) under squirt, n.
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 61: How was I supposed to know he’d stiff us?
at stiff, v.2
[US] W.D. Ehrhart Passing Time (1988) 54: The girls got a percentage of every drink the sailors bought, and those swabbies bought a lot of drinks.
at swabby, n.
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