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Word: pokin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...damn fool has plenty of guts." The story of another "casualty" got around: "He got shot pretty bad in the shoulder but he won't even come in to let 'em dress it until he finds the mucker that shot him. He's still out there pokin' his rifle in all the holes and shootin' like hell and gettin' shot at a million times a minute." At great risk from shore batteries, destroyers ran close to the beach, opened up on targets as small as one Jap sniper or one pillbox mound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Tarawa: Marines' Show | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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