ship's cousin

noun

an esteemed or preferred passenger aboard ship.

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Meanings

nounship's cousin (plural ship's cousins)

plural ship's cousins

  1. obsoleteslangnauticalan esteemed or preferred passenger aboard ship.

    "You're a ship's cousin, I tell ye, Master Doo-but-little," roared the steward; "some such matter as a ship's cousin, sir.."

    1876, James Fenimore Cooper, “The Pioneers”, in The Pioneers, Houghton Mifflin
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