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[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 89: Spriggs was mad as a hornet.
at ...a hornet under mad as..., adj.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 144: Her B.V.D.s were Grecian and were trimmed with Persian lace.
at B.V.D.s, n.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 102: We started doing bottoms up in rotation. It was a riot.
at bottoms up!, excl.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 106: Sheila, Peggy and the Queen Bee and the Brainless Wonder were all here.
at brainless wonder (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 49: One of the boys came in the other night without his Sam Browne belt. He was last seen walking down the street with a girl and he had it on then. So everybody got to kidding him about bushwacking.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1927) 258: I was right on the carpet and over a little ruined village.
at carpet, n.1
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 178: ‘Cheerio,’ says he. ‘Chin-chin,’ say we.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 73: The Chinless Wonder and Dora and Peggy were all there.
at chinless wonder, n.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 88: The motor conked all right, but he made a nice landing in the field.
at conk (out), v.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 197: My new motor is a dud. It chewed up a valve but I got back to the drome all right.
at drome, n.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 223: Mac made a date to call on a pretty little nurse. That boy is a fast worker.
at fast worker (n.) under fast, adj.1
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 100: The Hun has played hell with the troops in France and they need help.
at play (merry) hell with (v.) under hell, n.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 35: He got hightoned by the Colonel and [...] indulged himself in an orgy of bootlicking.
at high tone, v.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 128: I’d be willing to guarantee that no one had indulged in any horizontal refreshments here.
at horizontal refreshment (n.) under horizontal, adj.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 97: He was all lit up like a new saloon.
at lit up like a Christmas tree (adj.) under lit (up), adj.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1926) 96: Pansy ran into a chimney with a Camel and scored one complete write-off.
at write-off, n.
[US] J.M. Grider War Birds (1927) 96: Curtis says he is suffering from the Woofits, that dread disease that comes from overeating and underdrinking.
at woofits, n.
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