Usually means: Sailor who crossed the equator.
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  1. shellback: Merriam-Webster
  2. shellback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shellback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shellback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Shellback, shellback: Wordnik
  6. shellback: Wiktionary
  7. shellback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. shellback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shellback: Dictionary.com
  10. Shellback (Johan Karl Schuster), Shellback (producer), Shellback (record producer), Shellback (songwriter), Shellback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. shellback: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shellback: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shellback)

▸ noun:  A worldly sailor.
▸ noun:  A sailor who has crossed the equator.

Similar:
seadog, boatswain, sailorman, matelot, balinger, paper sailor, shipspeak, smacksman, merboy, submarine, more...

Opposite:
landlubber, land-lover, greenhorn

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Similar:
seadog, boatswain, sailorman, matelot, balinger, paper sailor, shipspeak, smacksman, merboy, submarine, more...

Opposite:
landlubber, land-lover, greenhorn



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