mucker
Americannoun
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Slang. a vulgar, illbred person.
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Informal. a person who often does or says the wrong thing; bungler.
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(especially in mining) a person who removes muck.
noun
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mining a person who shifts broken rock or waste
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slang
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a friend; mate
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a coarse person
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Prodded by the tour guide, Marty McNamee, a third-generation miner with a scraggly beard and a light-up helmet, Hunter approached a rusted track mucker.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
Carter is the first to congratulate his old mucker, everyone is obviously delighted for the dreadlocked centre.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2015
If he could leave out his long-time mucker Shaun Edwards from his coaching team, you knew he wasn't going to shirk the hard decisions on the playing side.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2013
The company flew in a special excavation machine known as a mucker that can be operated by remote control.
From Reuters ● Apr. 17, 2011
"Who is the mucker, anyway?" asked Barclay Fetters, readjusting his cuffs, which had slipped down in the melee.
From The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
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