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HAIRY-BELLY n. A sycophant. (Also Hairy-guts').
HANGING TO expr. Resulting from. ('Anything hanging to it.' Any result likely to arise from it.)
HARD WORD n. An outrageous demand. (Put the hard word on).
HASHMAGANDY n. An insipid and monotonous army dish.
HATE n. A burst of shell-fire, of machine-gun fire, etc.
HE'S TURNED HIS BELLY expr. He's changed his mind. Papua (Pidgin English).
HEAD n. A person of rank or standing.
HEAD EM v. (1) To cause to turn up the heads on both of the two coins used in the game of 'two-up'; (2) to play 'two-up.'
HERMAN n./adj. German.
HERRING-GUT n. A thin man.
HOBO n. See BOTT.
HOCH n. A German.
HOME-AND-FRIED adj. Safe; correct.
HOMMES-FORTY n. A cattle truck. (French Army cattle-trucks bear the legend, 'Hommes 40, chevaux 8.')
HOOJAH n. What's-his-name.
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