shellback

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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

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

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.

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

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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 Rolt-Wheeler, Francis