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Daedalus7 Posted 20 years ago
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crippie

wagwan, I need help on this phrase


He was a U.S. Navy crippie in World War Two

I suspicion that a crippie is some kind of military rank, but maybe is a slang term for cripple, or else. What do you think? Emotion: smile
  

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First hit on Google says it's slang for Cryptographer/Cryptanalyst, someone who works with coded messages.

  • First hit on Google says it's slang for Cryptographer/Cryptanalyst, someone who works with coded messages.
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First hit on Google says it's slang for Cryptographer/Cryptanalyst, someone who works with coded messages.
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I've just seen a film about the British Navy capturing the Enigma encrypting/decryptingmachine from the German U-Boats during WWII

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