File, _n._ A member of the male sex; one of the successive grades in military rank.
Find, _v._ To find deficient and discharge.
Formation, _n._ Any military function or military gathering.
Fried Egg, _n._ The crest of the U. S. M. A. used on the cap and full dress hat.
Goat, _n._ A low ranking man in any subject.
West Point Grind, _n._ A practical joke of the kind in which the victim sees no humor.
Gumstick, _n._ One who is in the habit of gumming it.
Hell Cats, _n._ The U. S. M. A. detachment of field music.
Hell Dodgers, _n._ Active members of the Y. M. C. A.
Hivey, _a._ Smart, brainy, able to understand things.
Ignorance and Gummery, _n._ Ordnance and Gunnery.
Laundry Spike, _n._ An especially long pin used by the laundry; a girl who works in the laundry.
Limits, _n._ The boundary beyond which a cadet may not go.
L. P., _v._ To give an undesirable task to anyone.
Max, _v._ To finish a job in a perfect manner.
Missouri National, _n._ A tune supposed to bring rain.
--oid. A suffix added to a noun or a verb to denote the agent by which the action in the noun or verb is accomplished, _i. e._ Ridoid--one who rides; Hopoid--one who attends hops.
P. C. S., _n._ Previous condition of servitude. Occupation before entering.
Pipe, _v._ To look forward to anything; to build castles in the air.
Plebeskin, _n._ A flannel blouse issued to new cadets. Very badly fitting.
P. M. E., n. Practical Military Engineering.
Podunk, _n._ A cadet’s home town. A name applied to any small town to denote its insignificance; a local newspaper.
Police, _v._ To discard; to relegate to the scrap pile; to throw from a horse’s back; to clean up, as to police a room.
Poop Deck, _n._ The balcony of the south cadet guard house, used by the officer in charge.
Pred., _n._ Predecessor; a cadet’s forerunner in office.
Quill, _n._ A person addicted to reporting cadets on every opportunity; subject matter for a report.
Recognize, _v._ To admit a fourth classman to the upperclass status.
Reverse, _n._ A position of disfavor, as to get a reverse on the tac.
Scavenge, _v._ To acquire something that someone else no longer wants or has thrown away.
Slug, _n._ A disagreeable duty; an award of special punishment for some major offense.
Soirée, _v._ To cause inconvenience or annoyance.