BLINKERED = pregnant
BLOW-OUT/BLOW-OFF = party, celebration
BONE = complaint, problem
BONZE = sleep
BOOGER = walk, shuffle
BOZZLE = alcoholic spirits
BRISKETS-DOWN = dead
BUMP = eighteen-month term of enlistment for the Macedonian army
BUMP OVER = to re-up; reenlist
CAULK = kill
CHAPPED = irritated, angry; pissed off
CHOP = march, trek
COOCH = women; sex in general
CURE = kill
DUST = discard, throw away; also kill
FIG = female genitalia; women in general
IN THE BOOKS = dead
JUTE = Afghan narcotic
MACK = Macedonian
MOOCH = barley meal; or, in broader usage, any type of food
NAZZ = naswar, cheap Afghan opiate
NOISE = rumor, news
PANK (AND JACK) = cheap rotgut booze
SCUFF = soldier
SEND HOME = kill
SHINE = gold, money, cash of any kind
SKIP = a discharge from the army
SPIKE = noun: involuntarily extended enlistment; verb: to extend troops’ enlistment without their permission; “We got spiked.”
STEAM = women
STITCH = kill
STUNT = an allowance, above and beyond wages, given to cavalry and mounted infantry to cover expenses for grooms and feed
WAX SCRATCHER = writer, war correspondent
