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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