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seagull
noun- a person who constantly complains US
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 153, 1968
- a casual wharfside worker AUSTRALIA
- [H]e was a casual wharfie at the time I’m telling you about, during the Second World War it was, and they call casuals “seagulls”. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 115, 1965
- a person who watches what bets are being made by big spenders and then makes a small bet on the horses favoured by the big spenders US
- — San Francisco Examiner, p. 52, 13 September 1966
- a combat pilot who has become reluctant to fly US
- The others called them “seagulls”–you have to throw a rock to get them to fly–and “sickbay flight.” The Navy let them turn in their wings, or would take them. — Robert K. Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, p. 39, 1990
- a rugby union player who remains outside tight play in the chance that the ball will break loose NEW ZEALAND, 1975
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 116, 1999
- chicken US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 48, 1945
- a semi-professional prostitute specializing in customers who are sailors in the US Navy US
- There are also lots of “sea gulls” [semi-amateurs, who follow the fleet from port to port] in the bars. — Charles Winick, The Lively Commerce, p. 173, 1971
- a military aviator assigned to a nonflying job US
- “They’re called seagulls. You know why? Because they can only eat, squawk, shit, and stand on one leg at the bar. You have to throw rocks at ’em to get ’em to fly.” — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 57, 1967
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