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nutcracker noun- a stern person; a strict disciplinarian, especially a woman who crushes a man’s spirit US
- Now this Budka is notorious, worst accident record in the mine and pictures himself as a real nutcracker. Always on your back for chickenshit while the important stuff goes right past him. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 42, 1977
- I never met a broad yet named Tammy wasn’t a nut cracker. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Golden Orange, p. 11, 1990
- a railway roundhouse mechanic US, 1977
- He was a medical doctor, not a nutcracker. — Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, p. 404, 1966
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 106, 1977
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