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[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 157: A little acey-deucey . . . or maybe mah-jongg if they’d rather . . . about ten cups of tea.
at acey-deucey, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 81: Giant, fat-assed, blubbery, disgusting warthogs from Cape Cod.
at fat-ass, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 281: Ready to roll, but one big sow belly always holds up the task force.
at sow-belly, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 145: Did you belt any of those nurses?
at belt, v.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 206: A whole boodle of them [gulls].
at whole boodle (n.) under boodle, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 124: Barker has again grown an inch-long nail [...] So he delivers a few indefinite threats and sends him off to clean his arms and cut off the ‘breadhook’.
at bread hooks (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 147: Not a one of you guys could fight your way out of a two-bit shirt.
at couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag under couldn’t..., phr.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 115: Segrave shattered what he considered her flimsy convictions with a well-planted ‘crapola!’ here and there.
at crapola (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] (con. WWII) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 244: We took about eight dames out on it. Everyone was loaded [...] Dames were crumped out all over the place.
at crump (out), v.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 68: Mr. D., free to take up his inner life of consumer-research prejudices [...] will be down in the cellar gosh-darning the new lawn mower.
at gosh-darn, v.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 75: If everybody can just go and dick off down there to Owi when they don’t feel like flying … .
at dick off (v.) under dick, v.3
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 150: He says scathingly [...] ‘Let’s go home [...] and get our didies changed’.
at didies, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 118: You’re ding-dong right it does!
at ding-dong, adv.2
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 277: The answer is that until now you haven’t lost doodley squat.
at doodley-squat, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 112: About three months ago he got dusted off.
at dust, v.2
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 91: ‘And you pushed out a little gietus?’ [...] ‘It’s there,’ the major says sarcastically, tapping some bills.
at geetus, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 147: What’s he griped about?
at griped, adj.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 193: Ainsworth took him into some big hairy cus when they sighted the fighters and he lost him due to awful turbulence, which Tuck says, scared him more than the fighters.
at hairy, adj.2
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 118: That is one hundred per cent pure hocky.
at hockie, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 232: You’ll all be home eating fried horse cock in the morning.
at horsecock, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 273: You see those murals? Are they jazzy or not?
at jazzy, adj.1
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 76: He’s already got ten times the guts because he’s not all wrapped up in ball caps and jerk-off literature.
at jerk-off, adj.
[US] G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 126: He’s losing a jug, poor guy [HDAS].
at jug, n.1
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 275: We got kamied on Tuesday. [Ibid.] 277: The kamies have changed that.
at kamie, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 111: Just couldn’t line up those three little peas in the little box and get those mothers all in their holes at the same time.
at mother, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 85: ‘Hey, pogie bait,’ someone calls [...] ‘is it true you was gettin’ forty bucks a shot [...] and spendin’ it on nice young Jap boys.’.
at pogee, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 103: Pop those bastards [...] Then pop the bastards in the water.
at pop, v.1
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 91: Prime fans his cards on the table. He has aces and queens. ‘You, you goddam sandbagger,’ the major says bitterly.
at sandbagger, n.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 223: We were just screw-lucky [...] We hit going like hell, no stalling her in, no flaps, big swells [...] it’s too bad Bart couldn’t have had some of that luck.
at screw-lucky (adj.) under screw, v.
[US] (con. 1945) G. Forbes Goodbye to Some (1963) 76: Toss a little zinc in there. The Seam-squirrel Miners Union will go out on strike.
at seam squirrel (n.) under seam, n.
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