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grayback

gray·back

uncommon

noun

1.

`johnny'' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War

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3.

a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

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Origin

From gray + back.

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