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Slang and acronyms in common use in the Services

ANZAC soup a shell hole full of water polluted by a corpse. (WW1)

Fart-arse about to waste time (WW2)

Hepatitis roll: bread roll baked locally (Viet Nam)

If these terms are unknown to you, or only vaguely familiar, you need to check the following pages to understand what the Diggers were saying, comprez?

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Military Abbreviations & Acronyms, Australia & NZ

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