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[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 75: Supposin’ I get sent to Asiatics. What then? [...] No cat houses, no drinkin’ and hellin’ around the way I used to.
at hell around, v.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 55: These guys don’t seem to be breakin’ their hump. Look at ’em. Just loafin’ along.
at break one’s hump (v.) under break, v.1
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 21: Chow down, sailors! Come and get it!
at chow down, v.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 73: The steam gauge is over there, and the first time you let the steam drop or the water get outa sight I’ll konk ya with this monkey wrench.
at conk, v.2
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 25: A house of your own with a good old-fashioned corkin’-off mat where you can flop every damn’ night.
at cork off (v.) under cork, v.1
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 25: I ain’t got no jumpin’ dandruff. You know I ain’t got no crabs, Mac.
at jumping dandruff, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 73: You think because you get yourself drunk [...] and get keelhauled by a woman, I’m supposed to worry about you troubles.
at keel-haul, v.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 195: I should have gone over the hill when I was thinking about it. But it’s too late now.
at go over the hill (v.) under hill, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 212: I’d trim you down to size and knock holy hell out of you.
at holy, adj.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 25: Look at that stupid leatherneck [...] Twenty-one bucks and a horse blanket. He’s a big shot, so he smokes cigars.
at horse blanket (n.) under horse, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 75: You know what to do with it [...] just go ahead and shove it.
at shove it!, excl.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 25: Look at that stupid leatherneck [...] Twenty-one bucks and a horse blanket. He’s a big shot, so he smokes cigars.
at leatherneck, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 75: You could teach him more’n you know, and he still wouldn’t know enough to pound sand in a rat hole.
at pound sand in a rathole (v.) under pound, v.2
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 91: Fightin’ over a skunk with a dose of clap. Knockin’ a guy’s teeth out for makin’ a pass at a whore.
at skunk, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 73: What you mumblin’ about, Slewfoot?
at slewfoot, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 218: He had a few bucks socked away.
at sock, v.2
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 75: He sweats his arse off for you.
at sweat one’s arse off (v.) under sweat, v.2
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 119: ‘Hello, sweetheart.’ Mac did not answer.
at sweetheart, n.
[US] E. O’Brien One Way Ticket 13: Here we are [...] with the wind blowin’ like a bat outa hell and snow ass-deep to a tall Indian.
at ass deep under ass, n.
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