kidder

/ ˈkɪdə /

noun

1. a person who kids

2. dialect,  a brother or friend

Example Sentences

One of these—Kidder, Peabody & Co.—helped bankroll the next great innovation that changed investing: the telephone.

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Bell’s American Telephone & Telegraph had a “continuing and mounting need for capital, amounts far greater than could be obtained from its traditional sources,” Vincent Carosso writes in “More Than a Century of Investment Banking: The Kidder, Peabody & Co. Story.”

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In 1906, faced with a $150 million placement, Kidder Peabody called in help, arranging a syndicate of J.P.

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Kidder died in 2018, her own struggles with mental illness well documented and heartbreaking.

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But “Sisters,” a proper freakout starring Margot Kidder, playing conjoined twins, is the first of what we now think of as a De Palma movie: a psychosexual nightmare with madman instincts.

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Related Words

• jester 
• prankster 
• trickster