Definition of "longshoremen" []

• Plural form of longshoreman. (noun)

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• "But during the day, when I worked, it reverted to a working class white bar, where old longshoremen from the Irish Channel could come drink cheap beer all day."
• "It was a good, plain, simple talk such as longshoremen, dock-rats, tugmen, and seamen often hear in this place, but it impressed young"
• "The two Kentucky regiments had been organized in Cincinnati, and were made up chiefly of steamboat crews and "longshoremen" thrown out of employment by the stoppage of commerce on the river."