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artist
noun- a person who is proficient at the activity that precedes AUSTRALIA, 1889
- Conkey Tonks, lightning change artist, now emerged in vivacious mood. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 190, 1945
- I wasn’t convinced, but this guy was such a gab-artist, damn if he didn’t talk me into it. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 335, 1946
- Michael Kerrigan, a 63 year old bogus check artist who offered to buy the liner Matsonia for $3,500,000, unconcernedly heard himself sentenced to a one to ten year term for forgery yesterday. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 28, 2 July 1948
- He was a tool dresser in the oil field, and I guess a fairly good bad-check artist. — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, p. 50, 1972
- It wasn’t the kind of place a holdup artist would hit. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 34, 1972
- Guy used to be the super in Roger’s building. Cornhole artist. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 88, 1977
- The hangers on, the rip-off artists, that is. — Drugstore Cowboy, 1988
- “Call up North,” Shad said. “Get a real torch artist.” — Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease, p. 277, 1993
- “You saying I’m a bullshit artist?” “One of the best.” — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, pp. 10–11, 1999
- a person who is devoted to, or especially proficient in, a reprehensible activity US, 1890
- I hope no-one’s seriously suggesting we’ve more than one artist bucketing about with a knife in one hand and his cock-robin in the other. — Michael Kenyon, The Rapist, 1977
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