horse trader
- a person who is shrewd and clever at bargaining.
- a person who trades in horses.
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Origin of horse trader
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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Related Words for horse trader
forger, cheat, crook, sham, fake, counterfeit, bastard, mountebank, racketeer, phony, pretender, quack, deceiver, impostor, swindler, mechanic, charlatan, shark, four-flusher, hoaxerExamples from the Web for horse trader
Historical Examples of horse trader
A horse-trader offered him seventy-five dollars for the animal.
"I ain't no way shore about that," said the horse-trader easily.
The QuickeningFrancis Lynde
He looks to me like a Yankee horse-trader, who is too intimate with the devil and his ways to be at all alarmed about them.
The Crime of the French Caf and Other StoriesNicholas Carter
The preceding incident leads to another, in which Lincoln himself figures as a horse-trader.
The Every-day Life of Abraham LincolnFrancis Fisher Browne
What had the horse-trader been saying to make it needful for Bill Layne to speak up as his mother's defender?
The QuickeningFrancis Lynde