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mockers
noun
▶ put the mockers on- to jinx AUSTRALIA, 1911
- He had been a good wartime officer; it was peace put the mockers on him. — David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, p. 42, 1971
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 59, 1977
- to thwart, to frustrate someone’s plans AUSTRALIA, 1949
A variation of earlier “put the mock(s) on”, which had a sense akin to “put a jinx on someone”.
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