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carny
noun- any person employed by or associated with a travelling carnival US, 1939
- Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 13, 1957
- — American Speech, p. 279, December 1966: “More carnie talk from the West Coast”
- This girl, I think the most important thing in her background was that her family was carnies. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 196, 1972
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 12, 1985
- Trailers were a carny status symbol. — Peter Fenton, Eyeing the Flash, p. 111, 2005
- the insider’s language used by carnival workers US, 1948
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 89, 1960
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