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A.P.M. n . (1) A permanent malingerer; (2) Assistant Provost Marshal, an unpopular staff officer.
ABBASSIEH n. (Arab.) A place of humiliation. (Military prison and dermatological hospital near Cairo.) ABBASSIEH BUKRA Retribu- tion on the morning after the night before.
ABDOMINAL n. 'An abdominal'; abdominal collapse. (See GUTZER.)
ABDUL n. (Arab.) Generic name for a Turkish soldier; the Turkish Arnny on Gallipoli.
ABDULLAH-with-the-CONDIES n. Egyptian menial employed by Cairenes.
ACK-ACK-ACK n. Full stop. Three A's in a field telephone message signify the end of a sentence. Otherwise expressed as 'three to a loaf,' 'three of a kind,' etc.
ACKETYACK n. See ACK-ACK-ACK.
ADRIFT adj. See A.W.L.
AIR POCKET n. A place in the atmosphere where the air is more rarified than the surrounding strata.
ALBERGO n. Hotel. Italy.
ALLEYMAN n. , (Fr., Allemand) German.
ALMOND ROCKS n. Socks.
AMBTAMO expr. Let's go. Italy.
ANDY McNOON n. An unqualified idiot. (Arab., inta machnoon) 'a damned fool'.
ANNIE n. 'Gentle Annie,' a big German howitzer, which fired on Bailleul during March and April, 1918. 'In Annie's room' - an answer to questions as to the whereabouts of someone who cannot be found. (See 'Hung on the wire').
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