A.P.M.n . (1) A permanent malingerer; (2) Assistant Provost Marshal, an unpopular staff officer. ABBASSIEHn. (Arab.) A place of humiliation. (Military prison and dermatological hospital near Cairo.) ABBASSIEH BUKRA Retribu- tion on the morning after the night before. ABDOMINALn. 'An abdominal'; abdominal collapse. (See GUTZER.) ABDULn. (Arab.) Generic name for a Turkish soldier; the Turkish Arnny on Gallipoli. ABDULLAH-with-the-CONDIESn. Egyptian menial employed by Cairenes. ACK-ACK-ACKn. Full stop. Three A's in a field telephone message signify the end of a sentence. Otherwise expressed as 'three to a loaf,' 'three of a kind,' etc. ACKETYACKn. See ACK-ACK-ACK. ADRIFTadj. See A.W.L. AIR POCKETn. A place in the atmosphere where the air is more rarified than the surrounding strata. ALBERGOn. Hotel. Italy. ALLEYMANn. , (Fr., Allemand) German. ALMOND ROCKSn. Socks. AMBTAMOexpr. Let's go. Italy. ANDY McNOONn. An unqualified idiot. (Arab., inta machnoon) 'a damned fool'. ANNIEn. 'Gentle Annie,' a big German howitzer, which fired on Bailleul during March and April, 1918. 'In Annie's room' - an answer to questions as to the whereabouts of someone who cannot be found. (See 'Hung on the wire').
