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shellback

[shel-bak]

shell·back

[shel-bak]
noun
1.
an old sailor.
2.
a person who has crossed the equator by boat.

Origin:
1880–85; shell + back1
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Shellback is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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shellback (ˈʃɛlˌbæk)
 
n
1.  informal Compare polliwog a sailor who has crossed the equator
2.  an experienced or old sailor

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