shipmate

IPA: ʃˈɪpmeɪt

noun

  • (nautical) A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
  • (nautical, informal) Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).
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Examples of "shipmate" in Sentences

  • Look at that little graphic over thar little shipmate.
  • "Losing a shipmate is the worst thing that can happen to you as a captain."
  • "You've come to the wrong shop for anarchy, Stephen," he assures his shipmate.
  • And it looks as though one of the women he goes to bed with is a shipmate, the Enterprise's communications officer.
  • He gave an impromptu and loving tribute to a shipmate, Tom Stevenson, for the way he always quietly did what was right.
  • I am in the navy and I am on a ship with a crew of 250 people, and myself and another shipmate are the only tarheel fans.
  • Then there was her former shipmate, Miranda Kadohata, who had requested a transfer from the Enterprise in order to take an extended assignment on Pacifica.
  • Such discourse is commonly jocular, and sometimes witty; every speech, coming from which side it may, ordinarily commencing with "shipmate," though the interlocutors never saw each other before that interview.

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