horse marine
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Noun
edithorse marine (plural horse marines)
- (nautical, slang) An awkward, lubberly person.
- (nautical, slang) One of a mythical body of marine cavalry, for whom wild flights of imagination are best reserved.
- Tell it to the horse marines!
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edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary