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."

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The old shellback glanced at me; but only muttered something, and went on his way aft.

From The Ghost Pirates by Hodgson, William Hope