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feather merchant
noun- a civilian employee of the military; a civilian US, 1941
- “You do whatever you want with those cruddy feather merchants, but let’s get one thing straight: they are never going to set foot on my Army post.” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 221, 1957
- — Current Slang, p. 13, Fall 1967
- a timid, conservative poker player US
- — Peter O. Steiner, Thursday Night Poker, p. 409, 1996
- a prostitute US
- “Damn if you don’t have those feather merchants under control, buddee. I didn’t think you had it in you.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 360, 1971
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