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The Big Show choose

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[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 89: A threat of public debagging [was] enough to calm him down.
at de-bag, v.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 42: Hell! The strategists had boobed.
at boob, v.2
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 17: Pints of petrol — filched from the bowser.
at bowser, n.3
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 56: Normally I bunked in his tent too.
at bunk, v.2
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 37: I bellowed my joy into the radio [...] ‘I got one, I got one! Jesus, I got one of them!
at get, v.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 51: The Hun embarked on a gentle spiral dive, designed to bring him on my tail.
at Hun, n.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 62: There are Hun fighters about, look out.
at Hun, adj.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 62: Look out for Jerry fighters!
at Jerry, adj.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 70: ‘Jees!’ he said, roaring with laughtrer.
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 141: I succeeded in nabbing one [i.e. a German fighter aircraft] [...] shells exploded under his belly [...] the usual tail of thick black smoke.
at nab, v.1
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 126: He [...] consequently tore me off a hell of a strip.
at tear off a strip (v.) under tear off, v.2
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 89: We were about to leave for the orkneys. There was a regular pea-souper.
at peasouper, n.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 43: It was captain Martell’s calm voice. You could feel he was hugging himself at the prospect of the big scrap coming.
at scrap, n.2
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 135: They had me taped; their attacks, perfectly coordinated.
at taped, adv.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 165: Fagged out, dead beat, nerves in tatters [...] we always got the thick end of the stick.
at thick end (n.) under thick, adj.
[UK] P. Closterman (trans.) Big Show 42: The whole Luftwaffe was in the air today! Things were going to get warm.
at warm, adj.
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