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1917 D. C. Falls Army & Navy Information 84 K.P., Kitchen Police. A mild form of punishment.

1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers i. 10 The men..filed by the great tin buckets at the door, out of which meat and potatoes were splashed into each plate by a sweating K.P. in blue denims.

1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) 33 Before first call, six or more unfortunates crept out of bed and went on kitchen police... ‘K.P.’ is for good reason the most hated detail in the army.

1930 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 31 A cook or K.P. stands by to see that the dishes are decently scraped before they go into the pail.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xviii. 162 After all the big personnel experts got together to figure out a job that was right for a city girl like me, I was cast for the part of Cinderella of Cottage No. 6. This was nothing but a fairy-tale name for permanent KP.

1973 Publishers Weekly 25 June 70/2 For an uncertain spell he struggles through the miserable childhood of ‘Norma Jean’ in a welter of secondhand conjectures—Mailer doing biographical KP.