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n. - A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

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Usage examples (11)
  • "But I ain't got no Lens!" the dock-walloper stormed, in exasperation.
  • "What the blinding blue hell's coming off here?" demanded the dock-walloper, furiously.
  • The other man's anger was sternly suppressed, but he looked at the dock-walloper with no friendship in his eyes.
  • He could not spare much of his mind just then, but it did not take much of it to play his part as a dock-walloper.
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