Abbreviations used in this list:

abbr. abbreviation

ad. adoption

adj. adjective

cont. contraction

der. derived from

n noun

phr. phrase

v verb

ID		Identity or identify.
Idle	v	Lazy and indolent.
Interior economy		Barracks cleaning, usually on a Friday night (bullshit night) to prepare for Saturday morning muster parade and kit inspection.
In the nuddy		Nude.
It’s giving me jip		I’m in pain.
I was in Baghdad before you were in Dad’s bag.		Coined by British troops after the Mesopotamia Campaign of World War I to express one’s status as an ‘Old Sweat’.