lime-juicer

American  

[lahym-joo-ser] / ˈlaɪmˌdʒu sər /

noun

Older Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a British sailor.

2. a British person.

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Sensitive Note

See limey.

Etymology

Origin of lime-juicer

First recorded in 1855–60; so called because British sailors were required by law to drink lime juice to ward off scurvy

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Example Sentences

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lime-juicer

And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London

Petrak, Buckrow, and the long lime-juicer was all pretty thick when no one was lookin' at 'em.

From The Devil's Admiral by Frederick Ferdinand Moore

But the instrument, down on his luck and 'fore-the-mast in a "lime-juicer," must needs refer to it, again and again, until the sorely tried man gave way.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Walt Louderback

"I saw it done when I was second mate on a lime-juicer," Captain Ward spoke up.

From A Son Of The Sun by Jack London

He had sailed always on French merchant vessels, with the one exception of a voyage on a "lime-juicer."

From The Road by Jack London

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