sea lawyer

Noun

sea lawyer (plural sea lawyers)

1. A lawyer who specializes in maritime law.
2. (slang) A rules lawyer.
3. (archaic, slang) A shark.
   • Well, I will say, I think the sea lawyer is worse than the chaps on shore. I would rather see Mother Carey's chickens any day than a shark following a ship.1852, The Spectator - Volume 25, page 807
   • The extraordinary number of these sea lawyers present, was equalled only by their rapacity. Before we began cutting-in, they had already commenced their meal. Taking advantage of a heave of the swell, a shark would wriggle up on top of the whale, and setting his wide opened mouth against the solid...1859, The boy's own sea stories; the adventures of a sailor, narrated by himself
4. Synonym of mangrove snapper.

   Synonyms:

   mangrove snapper