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number ten; numba ten adjective the very worst UK, 1953 Southeast Asian pidgin, commonly used during the Vietnam war.- You number Ten, you crazy. — The Berkeley Barb, p. 3, 3 December 1965
- I hadn’t noticed him until he smiled and said, “Numbah one!” I quickly grabbed for my shirt. As soon as I got the last button fastened, he snorted: “Numbah ten.” — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 69, 1967
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 4, 1968
- “Hoa, numah fucking ten!” the kid yelled. “Cheap Charlie.” — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 17, 1972
- “This grass is Number Ten,” Davies said. — Michael Kerr, Dispatches, p. 177, 1977
- — Maledicta, p. 256, Summer/Winter 1982: ‘Viet-speak’
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 154, 1991
- [T]he hooch girl, who cleaned up and took care of the laundry, stopped in her work, shook her broom at me, and started yelling, “You go kill VC! Numba fucking ten.” — Paul Young, First Recon–Second to None, p. 195, 1992
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