shellback

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. & Mrs. Hoover were exempt, he being a "shellback" with 14 crossings of the Equator to his credit, more than anyone else present except his naval aide, Commander A. T. Beauregard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her father, a "shellback" who had crossed the Equator before, asked King Neptune if he could be ducked in his daughter's stead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced a shellback.

From Time Magazine Archive

You go through the mill, and you'll have a bigger grudge against every old shellback that dirties his plate in the three oceans, than the Bank of California could settle up.

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis