junketeer

[ juhng-ki-teer ]

noun

1. a person who goes on junkets, especially regularly or habitually:

   My friends are weekend junketeers to Las Vegas.

verb (used without object)

1. to go on a junket, especially at government or another's expense:

   The speech railed against congressmen who regularly junketeer to Europe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of junketeer¹

First recorded in 1815–25; junket + -eer, on the model of coinages with -teer, often derogatory, as profiteer, racketeer