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Bluejacket   Listen
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bluejacket  n.  A serviceman in the navy.
Synonyms: navy man, sailor, sailor boy.





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"Bluejacket" Quotes from Famous Books



... Matamoras, the works of which were to be bombarded as a portion of the general programme for this day while the troops were being landed. The men of the Texas performed their part well; the Socapa battery was quickly silenced; but not quite soon enough to save the life of one brave bluejacket. The last shell fired by the retreating Spaniards struck the battle-ship twenty feet abaft the stem on the port side. It passed through the hull about three feet below the main-deck line, and failed to explode until striking an iron stanchion at the centre line of the berth-deck. Here were ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis
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... stage, borne on the shoulders of two colonels! Two men who had eagles on their shoulders, U.S. on their collars, and gold chevrons on their left sleeves carried on their shoulders a "gob," a sailorman, a deck-swabbing bluejacket, ...
— The Story of The American Legion • George Seay Wheat
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Words linked to "Bluejacket" :   Navy SEAL, striker, sailor boy, serviceman, submariner, military man, military personnel


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