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  • adjective Dressed in a shell suit.

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Examples

  • He'd survived several highly motivated and often professional attempts on his life: a hit-man, patiently sitting in his kitchen with a silenced nine-mil, like he was waiting to sell him insurance; that shellsuited genetic accident Lime had hired; ski - masked mercenaries breaking into his flat in the dead of night.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • He'd survived several highly motivated and often professional attempts on his life: a hit-man, patiently sitting in his kitchen with a silenced nine-mil, like he was waiting to sell him insurance; that shellsuited genetic accident Lime had hired; ski-masked mercenaries breaking into his flat in the dead of night.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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