Demsn.
/dɛmz/ On a defensively equipped merchant ship: a gunner.
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1943 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 27 Oct. 266 Defensively equipped merchant ship gunners (‘Dems’) taking a refresher course... A high-angle 4-in. gun being demonstrated to a ‘Dems’ class.
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n.1943- throw off
- throw off his or her bias
- throw off the scent
- throw off the yoke
- throw on
- throw one's cassock to the nettles
- throw one's energy into
- throw one's etc
- throw one's etc into
- throw one's face
- throw one's fastball
- throw one's feet
- throw one's frock to the nettles
- throw one's hat in the ring
- throw one's hat into the ring
- throw one's heart into
- throw one's leg over
- throw one's money about
- throw one's mouth
- throw one's rattle out of the cot
- throw one's rattle out of the pram
- throw one's soul into
- ticket-shop
- ticket-snatching
- ticket-snipper