shellback

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

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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 Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis