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greyback   (TTS Sound)

The noun greyback has 3 senses

• Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback -- (`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms)


• greyback, grayback, Limnodromus griseus -- (a dowitcher with a grey back)


• knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus -- (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)