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[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face 172: Some gumshoe artist was fiddling around and suddenly our numbers were on the vehicle.
at gumshoe artist (n.) under gumshoe, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 120: They had down pat a ‘shave and a haircut, two bits’ duet.
at shave-and-a-haircut, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 154: He jokingly suggested that I’d ‘gone Asiatic.’.
at asiatic, adj.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 85: He was a former division heavyweight champion [...] and he tore my ass.
at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 55: Then we jumped aboard and unassed the place.
at un-ass, v.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 30: My ass was in the worst crack ever.
at get one’s ass in a crack under ass, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 133: Pusan was the asshole of the universe, a drab, dirty war town where the sun didn’t shine.
at asshole, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 201: I had more balls than brains; I was a reckless buccaneer.
at his balls are bigger than his brains under balls, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 28: We beat feet back to the safety of our rice-paddy wall.
at beat feet (it) (v.) under beat, v.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 213: This modern-day Sodom made Columbus [OH] look like a proper Bible-bashing town.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 74: You Hawaiian Buddha-heads have enough trouble with the cold.
at buddhahead (n.) under buddha, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 214: George Catlett Marshall had tasked himself with ridding Benning of the ‘bunk, complications and ponderosities.’.
at bunk, n.2
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 157: Only around noon would we crap out and sleep for ten or twelve hours.
at crap out, v.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 218: What with all the cheating and cribbing trouble at West Point of late [etc.].
at crib, v.2
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 157: We had enough demo to blow up the Golden Gate.
at demo, n.1
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 231: After forty days in this limp-dick outfit I’m convinced you could not run a good Boy Scout troop.
at limp-dick, adj.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 79: A dry change of socks [...] — and lots of ammo — were the real essentials in a doughfoot’s kit.
at doughfoot (n.) under dough, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 44: Sir, I have the drop on you. I hope you’ll play the game.
at have the drop (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 91: We were just a bunch of dumbshits trying to articulate a comrade’s courage.
at dumbshit, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 127: On payday (or ‘the day the eagle shits’) we got paid early.
at when the eagle shits (n.) under eagle, n.2
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 145: [...] eight balls a cunning topkick was trying to unload.
at eightball, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 63: You’d be asleep almost before you’d zipped up your feather-down fart sack.
at fart-sack (n.) under fart, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 212: Fresh-faced Lieutenant Combats whom the class’s collective fruit salad would have had shitting for a year.
at fruit salad, n.1
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 119: [note] G Company always resented Easy’s glamour-puss reputation.
at glamour puss (n.) under glamour, adj.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 37: I’m a recon man [...] I’m no dumb groundpounder.
at ground pounder (n.) under ground, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 38: The I&R Platoon was a groundpounder unit.
at ground pounder (n.) under ground, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 147: Nomcombat types who wanted to play out the role of a tommy-gun-toting warrior.
at tommy gun, n.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 200: The sergeant started to heavy me, but then my boys stood up.
at heavy, v.
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 181: Right – like telling Johnny Reb not to click his heels together when ‘Dixie’ was played.
at Johnny Reb (n.) under johnny-, pfx
[Aus] Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 139: We ate steaks, sang around a big bonfire, and got knee-knocking drunk.
at knee-walking (adj.) under knee, n.
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