Usually means: Journalist exposing corruption through investigation.
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  1. muckraker: Merriam-Webster
  2. muckraker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. muckraker: Collins English Dictionary
  4. muckraker: Vocabulary.com
  5. Muckraker, muckraker: Wordnik
  6. muckraker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. muckraker: Wiktionary
  8. muckraker: Dictionary.com
  9. muckraker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Muckraker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. muckraker: Rhymezone
  12. muckraker: FreeDictionary.org
  13. muckraker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. muckraker: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. muckraker: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muckraker (disambiguation), muckraker: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muckraker, muckraker(my cracker): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See muckrake as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (muckraker)

noun:  (US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
noun:  (US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).
noun:  (British, derogatory) A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.

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