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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New, old skipper Joe Root might wonder about the chaos his old mucker has left behind.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
The Wisden Almanack, now under the editorship of our esteemed old mucker Lawrence Booth, has just launched a new quarterly magazine.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
The company flew in a special excavation machine known as a mucker that can be operated by remote control.
From Reuters ● Apr. 17, 2011
Let's allow that the main purpose of the great Public Schools is to breed brave average boobies by means of rocker, sticker and mucker and the rest of it.
From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
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