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limeys

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plural of limey, slang

as in lubbers

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American and French soldiers and sailors killed one another during the 1942 landings in North Africa—and then went off to war together in Italy and the South of France.

— Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
The elimination followed an earlier decision to end female sailors’ participation in women’s-only regattas.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 July 2026

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These outposts were intended to be manned by British seamen armed with antiaircraft weaponry.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
The South cried hypocrisy on slavery, given that the seamen of Providence, Rhode Island, played a central role in the Atlantic slave trade.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

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