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bloody back

noun

Etymology

From the military practice of flogging as discipline.

Definitions

  1. A soldier.

    • […] how the troops came marching out for evening exercise under Captain Preston; how pedestrians and street urchins taunted them, shouting "Lobsters," "Bloody-backs," and flinging snow-balls, turnips, […]

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