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n. 1 worldly sailor 2 a sailor who has already crossed the equator
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Shellback may refer to:
- Shellback (record producer), from Karlshamn, Sweden
- Shellback, California, former settlement
- Shellback Wilderness, White Pine County, Nevada, U.S., wilderness area
- Shellback Island, Victoria, Australia
- Line-crossing ceremony, initiation rite which commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the equator; also sailors who have participated in this rite
Karl Johan Schuster (; born 1 February 1985), known professionally as Shellback, is a Swedish two-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter, record producer and musician. Shellback was listed as the No. 1 producer of 2012 on Billboard magazine's year end chart, and he also topped the list of their "Top 10 Songwriters Airplay Chart" the same year. He regularly collaborates with songwriter Max Martin, and together they have produced, written and/or co-written songs for P!nk (" So What", " Raise Your Glass", " Fuckin' Perfect"), Taylor Swift (" We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", " I Knew You Were Trouble", " 22", " Shake It Off", " Blank Space", " Style", " Bad Blood", " Wildest Dreams"), Adam Lambert (" Whataya Want from Me", " If I Had You"), Britney Spears (" If U Seek Amy", " 3", " I Wanna Go"), Usher (" DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love", " Scream"), Avril Lavigne (" What the Hell", " Wish You Were Here", " Smile"), Ariana Grande (" Problem"), Adele (" Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"), and Maroon 5 (" One More Night"). Shellback has collaborated with fellow producer Benny Blanco for " Payphone" and " Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5 and " She Doesn't Mind" by Sean Paul. He has also produced songs by himself, including " Want U Back" by Cher Lloyd and " Animals" by Maroon 5.
Usage examples of "shellback".
As a finale, all pollywogs of all ranks and rates were paraded around the flight deck in their miserable and ludicrous condition before the assembled shellbacks and under the cold stare of Neptunus Rex himself.
No one took much notice of the Shellbacks, or indeed of the whole of Barchan, until one day it was discovered that Shellback flesh was a true delicacy.
After a few months he noticed a curious fact about Shellback behavior.
Finally Tiggens produced some of his pictures of the Shellback shoreline patterns of movement.
I was a toddler and you still find the occasional shellback conservative.
Forte, himself an old shellback, was rigged out as a seventeenth-century pirate, in floppy boots, ragged pants, black handlebar mustaches, a cutlass and brace of wheellock pistols tucked in a broad red sash, rakish black hat with a peacock feather and the brim turned up, and black eye patch.
That made him a shellback, immune from the hazing men doing it for the first time--polliwogs--had to go through.
The Shellbacks worked cooperatively, no one duplicating the efforts of another.
Stellar Group were explicit and rigorously enforced: The Shellbacks were an intelligent species, even though the nature of their intelligence was not yet understood.
Somehow the team had to disable the Simmie, without killing the Shellbacks or ruining their environment.
Gensel, made his appearance, and the new carrier-load of pollywogs arduously and ridiculously became shellbacks at the hands of those who only eight months ago, en route from Pearl to the Marshalls with Air Group Ten, had undergone the same ordeal.
Strait of Gibraltar, and that raised the spirits of all the troupers and all but the mossiest shellbacks among the crew.
In accordance with naval regulations, all shellbacks had the particulars of their initiation recorded in their service records--ship, date and longitude.
At the exit of the tunnel were shellbacks with saltwater hoses to rinse off the garbage, but the wogs were only beginning their odyssey.
The wogs slithered through this mess to the other side, where shellbacks helped them out, wiped them down, and congratulated them heartily.