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Shellback 222: You miserable-looking sick baboons.at baboon, n.
Shellback 222: You miserable-looking sick baboons. Shellback 265: Ef I had him down south, I could paint him black and sell him for a buck nigger.at buck nigger (n.) under buck, adj.1
Shellback 25: The carpenter, ‘Chips’ as he is named on board ship.at chips, n.1
Shellback 150: Guess he’d have been laid out and ready for the cold meat box by now.at cold meat box (n.) under cold meat, n.
Shellback 224: Having complied with our considerate commander’s request to cool our coppers, we made a bow and got on deck.at cool one’s coppers (v.) under cool, v.2
Shellback 16: I ought to be marled in a blue coat [...] with a tall complexioned hat and a ‘d--n my eyes’ necktie.at damn-your-eyes (adj.) under damn, v.
Shellback 323: He [...] gives her a dollar or two, and straightway falls into the snares of another, although he swears that Dolly Mops isn’t going to send him to sea again before his time.at dollymop, n.
Shellback 127: He was [...] a regular ‘down Easter,’ from Connecticut.at Down-easter, n.
Shellback 237: Shet your baboon’s gash.at gash, n.1
Shellback 78: ‘Great Caesar’s ghost!’ I exclaimed.at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
Shellback 153: I’ll lay it on to you, my joker! I’ll make you smell h-ll before another ten minutes.at smell hell (v.) under hell, n.
Shellback 345: The men declared that the first officer who laid a hand on them or ‘jagged’ them would be shot, or ‘spilled in the drink’.at jag, v.2
Shellback 24: He must [...] know his duty ‘up to the knocker’.at up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
Shellback 108: The captain asked him to ‘liquor up’.at liquor (up), v.
Shellback 125: You d––– sneaking white-livered Dutchman!at white-livered, adj.
Shellback 277: Call the steward and tell him to bring the medicine in.at medicine, n.
Shellback 369: The only effects are to make the skipper’s temper unbearable [...] and to procure for the boys what is known as ‘monkey’s allowance’ – more kicks that halfpence.at monkey’s allowance (n.) under monkey, n.
Shellback 349: That is all nonsense, and may go down on the stage or in ‘Penny Dreadfuls’.at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
Shellback 54: ‘By the piper!’ he said. ‘This beats me.’.at by the piper (that played before Moses)! (excl.) under piper, n.4
Shellback 24: On board a Yankee ship he must be a regular ‘ring-tailed roarer’.at ringtailed snorter, n.
Shellback 191: What he don’t know in the way of workin’ up a crew of scowbankers ain’t worth knowing. [Ibid.] 229: You white-livered ’longshore loafers! You ---- mutineering scowbankers!at scowbanker, n.
Shellback 325: He knew his work, and was a thoroughgoing old shellback, although only about thirty years of age.at shell-back (n.) under shell, n.
Shellback 267: Perhaps you’d like soft tack and roast turkey?at soft tack (n.) under tack, n.1
Shellback 348: Dash my tarry toplights and topgallant eyebrows!at toplights, n.
Shellback 302: We got our traps together, and started for Glasgow.at traps, n.1
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