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deuce-and-a-half
noun
a two-and-a-half ton cargo truck US, 1944
Military usage since World War 2.- “Fill up that deuce and a half,” hollered the loadmaster[.] — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 61, 1967
- A deuce-and-a-half was waiting beside the orderly room. — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 16, 1972
- The gas truck, a deuce-and-a-half with two fuel tanks on the back, marked “Mo-gas,” had begun moving up the line, refueling. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 17, 1977
- One fine day this full-bird colonel pulled up in a deuce-and-a-half and volunteered a bunch of us, so we pile in his truck, and off we go south[.] — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 130, 1986
- No, we ain’t seen nothin’ all night ’cept some jeeps and a deuce ’n a half going up to the cavalry. — Harold Coyle, Team Yankee, p. 12, 1987
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