shellback
Example Sentences
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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
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
They have adjusted to a new time and a new social structure, and this is not necessarily because, as one old shellback snorted, "The '400' has been marked down to $3.98."
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the men, an old time shellback, bent that sail on to the cylinder so snugly and cleverly that almost two-thirds of the surface was protected.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
