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drummer
noun- a housebreaker, especially one who steals from unoccupied premises; a confidence trickster who poses as a door-to-door salesman or similar UK, 1856
- Ask me who, in my opinion, is the greatest drummer of modern times[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 31, 1956
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 48, 1996
- a poker player who plays only with good hands or good odds favouring his hand US
A play on the operative adjective of TIGHT used to describe such a player. - — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 31, 1988
- a railway yard conductor US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 262, 1946
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