Bootlick Alley, _n._ A street passing in front of the officers’ tents in camp (off limits to plebes). Brace, _n._ Term applied to muscular efforts of fourth classmen to look military. Brace, _v._ To assume an excessive military position. Obsolete. B. S., _n._ Loquaciousness; superfluity of talk. B. S., _v._ To be loquacious. Buck, _n._ Cadet in ranks; one who has no chevrons. Bugle, _v._ To stand at the board all the period to escape reciting. (Not applicable to first-class year). Bump, _v._ To deprive cadet officer of chevrons. Butt, _n._ The remainder of anything, as the butt of a skag; of a month. Cit., _n._ A Civilian. Cits., _n._ Civilian clothing. Clean Sleeve, _n._ A cadet who has never worn chevrons. Com., _n._ Commandant of Cadets. Con., _n._ Confinement. Corp., _n._ Corporal. Crawl, _v._ To correct or rebuke someone (especially fourth classmen) in a severe manner. Crawling, _n._ A rebuke. Deadbeat, _n._ An easy job; one who deadbeats. Deadbeat, _v._ To avoid some distasteful duty. Dis., _n._ Discipline. Dissy, _a._ Lacking in demerits. Div., _n._ A division of barracks. Doughboys, _n._ The infantry. Drag, _v._ To escort a lady; to pull a man out of bed; to pull off a pair of white trousers. Drag, _n._ A puff of skag. Femme, _n._ A member of the fair sex. Fess, _v._ To fail. Fess, _n._ A failure. File, _n._ A member of the male sex; one of the successive grades in military rank. Find, _v._ To find deficient and discharge. Flirtation, _n._ Flirtation Walk. Formation, _n._ Any military function or military gathering. Fried Egg, _n._ The crest of the U. S. M. A. used on the cap and full dress hat. Gig, _v._ To report for a delinquency. Gig List, _n._ The delinquency list. Goat, _n._ A low ranking man in any subject. Grind, _n._ A joke. West Point Grind, _n._ A practical joke of the kind in which the victim sees no humor. Gross, _a._ Lacking in intelligence. Growley, _n._ Tomato catsup. Growley, _v._ To blush. Gum, _v._ To make a mistake. Gumstick, _n._ One who is in the habit of gumming it. Hell Cats, _n._ The U. S. M. A. detachment of field music. Hell Dodgers, _n._ Active members of the Y. M. C. A. Hive, _v._ To understand; to discover. Hivey, _a._ Smart, brainy, able to understand things. Ignorance and Gummery, _n._ Ordnance and Gunnery. Juliet, _n._ A cadet who enters in July. Laundry Spike, _n._ An especially long pin used by the laundry; a girl who works in the laundry. Limits, _n._ The boundary beyond which a cadet may not go. L. P., _n._ A person who is undesirable. L. P., _v._ To give an undesirable task to anyone. Make, _n._ A cadet officer. Max, _n._ A perfect mark. Max, _v._ To finish a job in a perfect manner.