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sniffer
noun- the nose UK, 1858
- Several times the master of ceremonies stuck the pill close to my nose and told me to smell it. Poppa, you never laid your sniffer on anything so fine in all your life. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 99, 1946
- [T]hey’ll go all moody and Beardsley drawing and look down their sniffers at you[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 34, 1962
- an ampoule of amyl nitrite US
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 1, December 1970
- a cocaine user US
- So while this sniffer’s giving you head she just stops in the middle and tells you about a commercial real estate venture? — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 152, 1988
- a device placed on a vehicle’s exhaust pipe to measure the pollutants in the emission US
- — Jim Edwards, Auto Dictionary, 1993
- a claims investigator of unemployment and other benefit fraud UK
- We are honoured. Two sniffers from the dole. — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- a computer program that surreptitiously records user passwords and other log-in data US, 1994
- — American Speech, p. 192, Summer 1996: “Among the new words”
- an outsider who tries to be part of the pornography industry US
- — Adult Video News, p. 51, October 1995
- a handkerchief US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 17, 1945
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