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Top Sergeant--first sergeant.
Up the Pole--to swear off drinking.
Yellow-leg--cavalryman.
Youngster--a young officer (a first or second lieutenant).
Wagon-soldier--light or field artilleryman.
Wind-jammer--a trumpeter or bandsman.
Wood-butcher--company artificer.
ENGLISH ARMY SLANG
Gravel Crushers--infantry soldiers.
Poultice Wallahs--Royal Army Medical Corps men.
Doolally Tap--when a soldier becomes mentally unbalanced he is said to
have received the "Doolally Tap." "Doolally" is a corruption of the
name of an Indian town, Deolali.
Bun Wallah--a soldier who drinks nothing stronger than tea, and is in
consequence supposed to eat voraciously of buns.
Chips--the regimental pioneer sergeant, who is usually a sergeant.
Lance Jack--a lance-corporal.
Quarter Bloke--the quartermaster.
Rookey--a recruit.
Scrounger--a man with plenty of resource in getting what he wants.
Yob--one who is easily fooled.
Bobygee--a soldier cook. In India a native one.
Baggies--sailors in the Navy.
Badgy--an enlisted boy.
Long-faced Chum--a cavalryman's term for his horse.
Rooty--bread.
Slingers--a meal of bread and tea.
Muckin--butter.
Bully Beef--the tinned meat ration.
Lamping--eating heartily.
C. B.--confined to barracks.
Chucking a Dummy--when a man faints on parade he is said to "have
chucked a dummy."
Clink or Mush--the guard room.
Brief, Cheque or Ticket--discharge documents.
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