From a friend in the Royal Air Force, now serving "somewhere in England," I recently received a few examples of the slang indulged in by the members of that force.
"Browned off," he tells me, is their equivalent to "fed up," and the person usually responsible for such feelings is known as a "binder," or to us a bore. From this word is derived the laconic instruction - "don't bind me," or put more emphatically, "don't bind me rigid."
When a pilot happens to make a mistake, his mates remark that "So and So booed" or that "So and So carried the can." If he has crashed to earth he is said to have "hit the deck." Should someone be missing and it is given out that he is "upstairs" he is simply in the air - not, as might imagine, in the bedroom.
Finally, I am told that a "wog" is a member of the force whose nationality is other than English or Irish.
The Irish Times, November 25th, 1939.