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[US] G.E. Griffin ‘Rough-Rider’ Ballads of the Regiment 44: I know my busy bis.
at biz, n.1
[US] G.E. Griffin Ballads of the Regiment 46: The system of ‘busts’ and promotions.
at bust, n.
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘Me Bunkie and I’ Ballads of the Regiment 16: He sends them each pay day six ‘cart wheels’.
at cartwheel, n.1
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘Terror of Company K’ Ballads of the Regiment 58: The ‘chesty’ non-coms who were bigger / Were ‘leary’ of ‘Wild Irish Mick’.
at chesty, adj.
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘Me Bunkie and I’ Ballads of the Regiment 16: Tim Fagin [...] Called Bunkie a ‘psalm-singin’, craw-thumpin’ pup.’.
at craw-thumping, adj.
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘The Haybag’ Ballads of the Regiment 30: She was queen of ‘soap-suds’ row, / The ranking ‘hay-bag’ you’d soon know.
at haybag, n.
[US] G.E. Griffin Ballads of the Regiment 34: Toe the mark and ‘Hully Gee!’.
at holy gee! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘The Uniform We Wear’ Ballads of the Regiment 39: We know the sissy bluffers full of talk about ‘the boys’ / And ‘shooting irons’ and pork and beans.
at shooting iron, n.
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘O’Reilly’ Ballads of the Regiment 69: He drank up all the ‘jag juice’ that the whisky man would sell.
at jag, n.1
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘Terror of Company K’ Ballads of the Regiment 58: He finished each ‘jag’ in the ‘jigger’.
at jigger, n.1
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘The Men Who Were’ Ballads of the Regiment 44: The English, the Irish, the ‘Johnny Crapauds’.
at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘He Was Generally Irish’ Ballads of the Regiment 34: But he always loved a soldier, be he ‘Chummy,’ ‘Krout’ or ‘Mick’.
at kraut, n.
[US] G.E. Griffin Ballads of the Regiment 23: We are the lads who’ll smoke him out / On the trail of Loco Billy [i.e. Kaiser Wilhelm II] [DARE].
at loco, n.
[US] G.E. Griffin ‘The Men Who Were’ Ballads of the Regiment 44: The guidon’s a ‘Russ.’.
at Russki, n.
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