(North America, dated, derogatory, slang) A strikebreaker.
1908, "On the Firing Line", Machinists' Monthly Journal, Vol. 20, No. 11, November 1908, page 998:While we were there a couple of scalies came out and started up the street, but seeing the strikers there they turned around and went back into the saloon.
1911, "From Brittania Lodge, No. 361", Railway Carmen's Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1911, page 129:In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.
1935, International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union Journal, Vol. 30, page 830:In Dallas, women scalies cursed women pickets; four pickets went to jail for disorderly conduct while the scalies went on to work.
1984, Bruce Stannard, "The demons that haunt the long-run truckies", The Bulletin, 7 August 1984, page 68:even allowing for the detours through the back roads to avoid the "scalies" who man the highway truck-weight checking stations.
1991, Leslie P. Richards, Truckin' Tales: The Early Days, Lulu.com (2007), ISBN 9781847532626, page 43:Approaching Port Augusta I had lights flashed at me, warning that the weighbridge was open. I expected this because the scalies had passed me on the road earlier.
2009, John Andersen, "Floodwater graveyard", Townsville Bulletin, 3 March 2009:Scalies are stationed 24/7 on the northern outskirts of the Towers to ensure no one does tries to do a rat-run. The weight limit might soon impact on a large number of jobs.
2003, Durwood Hollis, Hunting Upland Game & Waterfowl, Krause Publications (2003), ISBN 9781440226793, pages 40-41:About the same size as the valley quail and the Gambel's quail, the scaled quail is often referred to as the "drab shirttail relative." Gray-blue in color (often known locally as "blue quail"), with a slight black tipping of the chest and breast plumage that creates scalelike markings, (hence the nickname "scalies"),
2003, Ben O. Williams, Winston: The Life of a Gun Dog, Willow Creek Press (2003), ISBN 1572237058, page 165:I sensed the birds' presence, but I had no idea if they were Gambel's or scalies, even though the habitat read scaled quail.
2007, Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts, HarperCollins (2007), ISBN 9780061343827, page 212:Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.
2008, Tom Arnhold & Web Parton, Wingshooter's Guide to Kansas Upland Birds and Waterfowl, Wilderness Adventures Press, Inc. (2008), ISBN 9781932098440, page 56:Scalies are more prone to be in open grass away from cover.
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