“Dox ... is it short for ‘drop your sox’? Military vets would get the connection.”
I thought it was grab your sox. You dropped something else.
I remember a WWII Army Air Forces vet telling me he’d heard Clint Eastwood use that expression when he went to see Heartbreak Ridge. Except he couldn’t quite remember how it went. I hadn’t seen the movie but told him how it went, and he said I had it right.
I told him “We used to say that in the Boy Scouts. How did they get you out of bed in the Army Air Forces?” He said they yelled “Rise and shine.”
In Army basic before Nam it was drop your c** and grab your sox when the lights went on for reveille.
I thought it was grab your sox. You dropped something else.