dog tags—metal identification pendants worn in duplicate and resembling dogs’ identification tags; in addition to other information, they include blood type.
Marrakech—a prominent city in, and former capital of, Morocco, in northwestern Africa.
dose of clap—a case of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease.
goldbrick—to shirk one’s duty through fakery; to malinger.
Euripedes—(480–406 b.c.) tragedian of classical Athens. The highly educated Clevinger would be familiar with him.
