shellback
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced a shellback.
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
There is not an old shellback alive who has clung between angry heaven and the grey-green pastures of the deep but deserves a Victoria Cross for unconscious, dutiful, grumbling, growling valour.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
