Word: kippering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wartime rookies in the Coldstream Guards are crushed into shape by kipper-complexioned, one-eyed Sergeant Bill Nelson, whose arms are "gnarled as old salami," whose fists protrude "like mallets of black stinkwood," and who sounds off to new recruits like one of Mark Twain's brawny scrappers in Life on the Mississippi...