limey
noun
a British sailor.
limeys
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pluralof limey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For this reason the British Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today that is why British sailors are still called limeys.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon
Off Falmouth, the transports, accompanied by three of the American destroyers and two English "limeys "—-as the British destroyers are known in the slang of the sea—-slipped off silently into the twilight.
From The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet by James R. [pseud.] Driscoll
