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Com Shack:
Radio room on ship.




ETA:
Estimated Time of Arrival.




Field Strip a Cigarette:
Strip off paper & spread tobacco around.




Collision Mats & Monkey Dinks:
Pancakes & sausages.




Lucky Bag:
Master of Arms collecting loose items - Coast Guard.




Captain of the Head :
In charge of cleaning toilets.




Three Sheets to the Wind:
Drunk as hell.




Snipe:
Engineering personnel working below deck.




"Just a Skosh":
Skosh, apparently Japanese meant "a little"..as in "bring your range up just a skosh".




Dinky Dou (Dow):
Crazy.




Cake and Wine:
Bread and Water--Part of confinement punishment at non-judicial punishment (Office hours or Captain's Mast).




Puzzle Palace:
Any headquarters battalion or higher.




Dead Bug:
Drinking game played by falling on floor with feet and arms in air.




Cannon Cocker:
Gunner's Mate.




Chanchor Cranker:
Medic.




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