Alleyman

plural Alleymans · plural Alleymen

1. historicalslanggovernmentA German, especially during the First World War.First known use 20th c.

   "Why don't the naval guns fire back?" "They only fire when the Alleyman attacks, mate."

   1954, Henry Williamson, How Dear is Life, page 239

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   Take me over the sea, where the Alleyman can't get at me. Oh my, I don't want to die, I want to go home.

   a.1918, ‘I Want to Go Home’ (song)

   In the trenches the men of both races shared their cigarettes and rum rations, and exchanged the most impossible yarns of what they had done, or would do, to the 'Alleyman!'

   1941, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 250, page 220