"'I know Livia said to me, said a couple of times there, Livia said it a lot: "I know these oldtimers, been at it a long time, experience up the gump-stump. […]
1996, Philip Caputo, Equation for Evil, HarperCollins (1996), →ISBN, pages 85-86:
"Finding them won't be a problem. There's employment records, driver's license records, Social Security records, records up the gump-stump. […]
"Now, here's the hot setup," Njangu told the assembled women and men. "The Social Democrats, who we shouldn't have gotten in bed with in the first place, but it's too late to cry over spilt drugs, are giving us security out the gump stump. […]
2003, P. T. Deutermann, The Firefly, St. Martin's Press (2004), →ISBN, page 360:
"Yeah, that's what worries me. You weren't exactly famous for being wrong all that much. Pain in the gump stump, yes, but wrong? Not often. […]
2007, Larry Smith, The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words, W. W. Norton & Company (2007), →ISBN, page 34:
I was on the DMZ, the demilitarized zone. It was mostly trench war, land mines up the gump stump.
2008, Donald E. Auten, Roger Ball!: The Odyssey of John Monroe "Hawk" Smith, Navy Fighter Pilot, iUniverse Star (2008), →ISBN, page 280:
We had gas out the gump-stump.
2014, Bob Taylor, So Sweet Justice, Trafford Publishing (2014), →ISBN, page 179:
"Look what happened since we went to chow. Missions up the gump stump. Loaded the next five days. The shit has hit the fan over around Khe Sanh. Think I should stay and start prepping?"