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(obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
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(Oxford University, obsolete) A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.
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(Australia, dated) An itinerant worker or unemployed person.
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(idiomatic) A worker who refuses to strike; a scab.
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A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
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(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
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A blackleg; one who takes the place of striking workers.
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The practice of working in place of those who are engaged in a strike.
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(transitive) To install a booby-trap in or on (a harmless object).
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Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.
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(humorous, nonce word) A little bounder.
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(obsolete) A person who steals plate from public houses.
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(slang, dated) A con man's apprentice.
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One who chaffers; a bargainer.
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(US) A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red light, and where each passenger, including the driver, shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, each taking a different seat.
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(transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
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(slang) A group or gang.
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(slang, obsolete) The hand or fist; used in the phrase "tip us your daddle" meaning "give me your hand".
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(Australia, slang) A designated driver.
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(slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
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(Australia, informal) A fixer-upper; a domestic property for sale that is in poor condition and needs doing up.
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Alternative form of dosser (a basket). [(Britain, Ireland) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.]
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(intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
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Synonym of trash panda (“a raccoon”)
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(obsolete) A helper; protector.
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Alternative form of flak catcher [A person whose job is to conduct public relations by shielding a more prominent person by intercepting and deflecting complaints and criticism.]
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Alternative form of flak catcher [A person whose job is to conduct public relations by shielding a more prominent person by intercepting and deflecting complaints and criticism.]
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(informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
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Alternative form of flak catcher [A person whose job is to conduct public relations by shielding a more prominent person by intercepting and deflecting complaints and criticism.]
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(obsolete) A French buccaneer; a French pirate in the Americas.
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(informal) A question that one cannot easily answer; a poser.
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One who engages in fly-tipping.
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(slang) An obsessive railfan, often used pejoratively.
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Alternative form of gangrel [(dialectal, Scotland) A tramp, vagrant, vagabond.]
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Alternative form of gangrel [(dialectal, Scotland) A tramp, vagrant, vagabond.]
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(informal) A person who catches or grabs from others.
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(English slang) a hard worker who puts in long hours
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(dated, slang, US) A broker who sold securities in the street.
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One who hackneys (makes uninteresting or trite by frequent use).
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(Jamaica) A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.
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(dated) To haggle in trading.
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Alternative form of jolleyer [(pottery) The operator of a jolley.]
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(US, slang) A safecracker.
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(often in signage and promotional materials) Used items offered or potentially offered for sale of unknown, but probably low value.
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Alternative form of knocker-up [(Britain, historical) A person whose job was to go from house to house in the early morning and wake up workers by tapping on the bedroom window with a long pole or similarly convenient implement.]
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(slang) A fugitive from justice.
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(slang) An illegal immigrant.
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Alternative spelling of leg-breaker [(chiefly US, slang) A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization.]
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(Caribbean) Someone who hangs around the streets; someone hanging out.
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(slang, US) A customer at an automobile dealership to whom a vehicle is difficult to sell.
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(figuratively) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
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(slang) An unskilled laborer; One who makes his living by outdoor manual labor.
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(now rare, chiefly historical) One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London.
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(UK, informal) To snatch or steal.
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(obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
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The state of being a one-trick pony.
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(slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
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(Scotland) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
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Alternative form of patzer [(chess, informal, derogatory) Synonym of woodpusher: a bad player.]
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(slang) a petty criminal.
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(obsolete, slang) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
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One who roves about for prey; one who prowls.
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One who jumps the queue.
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Alternative spelling of ramraid [An instance of ramraiding.]
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(US) A ranch-style house.
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(informal) A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
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(video game slang) barracks
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Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
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(derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
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(derogatory) A trade union that serves the employer more than the workers.
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(Scotland) A bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.
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(advertising) A preliminary design sketch.
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(Dublin, Ireland, derogatory) A person who is associated with petty criminality and who is seen as strongly identified with brand names in music, clothing, sport, vehicles, and so forth.
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(military, slang, dated) A resident of Gibraltar.
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(now historical) A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port.
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(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
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One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
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(obsolete) A vagrant; a cheat.
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One who moves in a stealthy or furtive way; one who comes or goes while trying to avoid detection.
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A hawker's license.
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(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
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One who snatches, or steals by snatching.
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One who goes from door to door, first footing, on New Year's Eve.
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(Britain, dated) A slacker; one who shirks responsibility.
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(obsolete) A clerical locum tenens.
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Alternative form of swainmote [(UK, law, obsolete) A court held before the verderers of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, three times a year, the swains or freeholders of the forest composing the jury.]
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One who follows or tails surreptitiously, as an investigator.
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(obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
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(obsolete, colloquial or slang, absolute, with the) In the height of fashion, excellent, cool.
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(dated, slang) A blow on the head.
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(sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
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(archaic) A sponger or parasite.
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(informal) A soldier trained to enter enclosed enemy spaces like tunnel systems to search them and eliminate and/or capture any occupants.
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(Britain, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
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A thief who takes part in van-dragging.
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(UK, slang, dated, public schools) A wastepaper basket.
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a person who waylays someone
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