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Sea Shanty 

1. A traditional work song aboard 17th-19th century sailing vessels. Often a call-and-response song, used to keep all the sailors' motions in time while performing tasks and spirits high.

2. After the early 2021 TikTok 'Sea Shanty' craze, the term began to be applied more broadly to acapella folk music with maritime themes evocative of traditional sea shanties (see: the Wellerman) and even more broadly to all folk music with maritime lyrics/themes. While these are not true shanties, the name has seemed to stick among zoomers.
Have you seen the sea shanty version of "Astronaut in the Ocean" that's been going around on TikTok?
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Sea Shanty 

the newest meme of 2021 on tiktok
lets sing a sea shanty
Sea Shanty by hurtmicg6 January 16, 2021

Sea shanty 

Part of the Dudar-Cressy vocabulary, 'sea shanty' is a word that comes between Scrim and Bo Diddley , meaning pretty crappy or not very good, something thats just not up to par. But it could always be worse ( Ie Scrim)

( list of related Dudar-Cressy Vocabulary see Flash , Bo Diddley and Scrim.)
That movie last night , I hated it , it was so sea shanty.

That joke was at the level of sea shanty.

Homework on the weekend is sea shanty.
Sea shanty by DarianToDark August 30, 2008

Sea Shanty 2 

A song from original Runescape. The best song in the entire universe.
You listen to Sea Shanty 2? You must be a god.
Sea Shanty 2 by 2zsl November 9, 2020

sea shanty 2 

A MIDI file; a song; the definitive banger from Runescape Old School.
I fucked my girl so hard she said that shit banged harder than Sea Shanty 2.
sea shanty 2 by @realBatman November 12, 2019

Sea shanty II 

One of the most popular and memed songs in old school RuneScape, a 3d fantasy mmo. It has a lot of influence in meme culture, and it also is just an awesome song!
Arrrrr me be listening to sea shanty II with me bottle of rum
John: hey yo I just got 99 firemaking while listening to sea shanty II

Ben: same
Sea shanty II by rubiasole628lover December 3, 2019

Sea shandy

I drunk some sea shandy today
Sea shandy by SeaShanties January 15, 2021
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