geedunk
n.— «It depended on where you were and what your uniform was, what you could do. It wasn’t too bad a life. We’d go down to the ice cream parlor and get a geedunk—a pint of ice cream—and go to the movies.» —by Joy Waldron Jasper, James P. Delgado, Jim Adams USS Arizona Nov. 15, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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