bluejacket

noun

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Etymology: From blue + jacket.

A seaman of a British warship
“It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.”
“‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’”
An enlisted man in the US Navy.
“[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.”
A uniformed policeman.
“He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.”
An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).