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croaker
noun- a doctor, especially a company doctor UK, 1879
Sometimes abbreviated to “croak.” - We’ll knock off this croaker. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 18, 1945
- He was just having a stomach attack from overeating and consti-pation, and the most he needed was some bicarbonate of soda and a physic, not a croaker. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 95, 1946
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 261, 1946
- The old croaker on 102nd finally lost his mind altogether and no drugstore would fill his scripts[.] — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 25–26, 1953
- From this croaker up on 76th Street. He used to write for me, you know, scripts, prescriptions. I turned a trick with him. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 91, 1966
- He told me he knew of a couple of people who were keeping up habits making croakers. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, 1980
- TERRY SOUTHERN: Bill, these are the pharmaceutical samples, sent by the drug companies [...] to Doc Tom Adams, the writing croak. — Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 31, 1997
- a doctor who provides narcotics for an addict US
A specialisation of the previous sense. - — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- a habitual complainer AUSTRALIA, 1882
In C19 US use, but now obsolete there. - — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- It was only the croakers made a fuss. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 142, 1969
- The croakers did a right about turn after the Caulfield Stakes. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 178, 1969
- a dying person, or one who has just died UK, 1873
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