mateys
- plural of matey.
Example Sentences
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These onstage mateys may not be the Rockettes, but who needs a toe-tapping tin soldier number when you can have a pirate duel with candy canes?
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2014
Their parrots, their peg legs, their eye patches; their planks for walking, their X'ed spot-markings; their swashbuckling ways and way of talking; their "Shiver me timbers!" and "Avast there, mateys!"
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2014
“Arr roight, mateys, best dumpen this lot whurr it comed from.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"Well, mateys, did you think you'd walk out to the yacht?" he asked.
From The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island by Burleigh, Cyril
At each side of the black basin gates stood a little group of men, the majority "Dockyard mateys" of the rigger's party.
From H.M.S. —— by Bower, John Graham
