mule skinner

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noun Informal.

a muleteer.

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Origin of mule skinner

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Words nearby mule skinner

mule deer, mule-ears, mule-fat, muleheaded, mules, mule skinner, Mules operation, mule spinning, muleta, muleteer, mule train

How to use mule skinner in a sentence

He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.
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He voices Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner and Mr. Burns, among many other characters.
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Unsurprisingly, Skinner was convicted despite the weapon not being found and conflicting testimony identifying him as the shooter.
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He took the left one and, with a pile driver of a mule kick, almost ripped it off its hinges.
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Those players called Robinson “Mule” because he worked them hard as pack animals.
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At this moment the tinkling of a mule's bells, mingled with the song of the muleteer, came on the air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Massed on the plateau above the mule-path, the whole population of the village stood to watch them down the steep descent.
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On crossing it for the first time, I perceived lying about me half putrid cats and dogs—and even a mule in the same state.
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This organ has lately been entirely rebuilt with new action and vastly improved by Mr. E. M. Skinner.
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He drives a white mule, and has managed to put a top of sail cloth on an old ramshackle buggy, which he calls a 'shay.'
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British Dictionary definitions for mule skinner

mule skinner

noun

US and Canadian an informal term for muleteer

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