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reader
noun- a book; a magazine; a newspaper UK
From the early C18 usage as a “pocket-book” which moved into the current sense during the mid-C19. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 95, 1996
- a “Wanted” poster or handbill US, 1926
- We got him on the teletype and they got readers out. — Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely, p. 91, 1940
- I was running snow from the coast to Detroit and there was a reader out on me — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. 14, 1952
- a counterfeit driving licence US
- A popular item on any Midway, a READER usually costs twenty dollars, but it is a cheap investment for someone needing to change identites or unable to obtain his own. — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 25, 1985
- a prescription for a narcotic US
- You can’t work a cartwheel or a bug to get a reader because the butcher’s gumptious to all that — The New American Mercury, p. 711, 1950
- — Richard Horman and Allan Fox, Drug Awareness, p. 470, 1970
- a marked card US, 1894
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 270, 1967
- He sees through his “reader” eyeglasses Hicks’ hand; space ace in hole with ten showing. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 59, 1978
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