crewmate

noun

crew·​mate ˈkrü-ˌmāt How to pronounce crewmate (audio)
: a fellow crewman

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McClain and her crewmates will spend two days getting briefed by Crew 9 on the intricacies of space station operations before Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmore and Williams undock for their return to Earth. William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025 Cue a shock-montage of all her crewmates, each with their head crushed in or blown open. Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025 Among Us Chicken McNugget (2023) → A Chicken McNugget shaped like an Among Us crewmate sold for $100,000, proving that even fast food can become a high-value collectible. Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Rapid deceleration imposed more than six times the force of gravity on Kelly and his crewmates, the cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewmate

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First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of crewmate was in 1938

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“Crewmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crewmate. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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