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A Private in the Guards choose

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[UK] S. Graham A Private in the Guards 32: Cursing and blinding like some old woman given to drink.
at blind, v.2
[UK] S. Graham A Private in the Guards 68: The object of the N.C.O.’s seemed to be to ‘crock him up.’.
at crock, v.
[UK] S. Graham Private in the Guards 74: Thank God, they haven’t taken Epernay, that's where the Plinketty Plonk (vin blanc) comes from.
at plinkity plonk, n.
[UK] S. Graham A Private in the Guards 66: Finally the ‘sob-raiser’, as the Americans called him, made the following appeal [etc].
at sob-raiser (n.) under sob, n.1
[UK] S. Graham A Private in the Guards 62: You’ll see wind up in the depot as never before.
at wind-up, n.2
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