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spieler
noun- a facile and smooth speaker US, 1894
- If they didn’t have a spieler like Kleinfeld around, they would starve to death. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 218, 1979
- A man who had a reputation as a spieler (a man who could draw a crowd around him and sell almost anything) welched on a few pounds he owed me over a snooker bet. — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 206, 2000
- a person who stands at the door of a business calling out to people passing by, trying to lure them into the business US, 1894
- A showman who harangues the crowd from outside is a “spieler” or “barker”[.] — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 32, 1953
- “Spielers I don’t need,” Cochrane told me right off. — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 6, 1966
- an (illegal) gambling or drinking club UK, 1931
- [T]he Berwick Social Club, which is the official name of Dickie Cash’s spieler. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 67, 1956
- He owns a spieler, this character. — Anonymous Streetwalker, p. 129, 1959
- flying dodgy kites [passing fraudulent cheques] with each other at bent spielers — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 21, 1962
- Spot and Hill ran dozens of spielers in the West End[.] — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 246, 2000
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