A gift or bribe.
Being a literary gent certainly has its advantages, such as not needing to shave before starting work in the mornings and all the literary luncheons sitting at the top table, which has the flowers and the buckshee booze.
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(military slang) A minor wound that necessitates the evacuation of a soldier from the combat zone for medical treatment.
Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already.
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An extra portion, ration etc.
Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight wound that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usual…
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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