shellback
nounEtymology From shell + back.
1
A worldly sailor.
- “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 161:
2
A sailor who has crossed the equator.
- Derived terms
- shellback crab
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