mule skinner


nounInformal.
  1. a muleteer.

Origin of mule skinner

1
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Words Nearby mule skinner

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How to use mule skinner in a sentence

  • His father was a mule-skinner—it's in the blood—can't help it possibly.

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan
  • He swore with the sincerity of a hen with fresh-hatched chicks and the vocabulary of a mule skinner.

    The Lone Ranger Rides | Fran Striker
  • One was a jolly Irish mule-skinner with a picturesque vocabulary and an inimitable brogue.

    Oh, You Tex! | William Macleod Raine
  • About this time a brother mule-skinner enters, mouthing a corncob pipe.

  • A brightly painted Indian with eagle feathered bonnet and a string of grizzly claws around his neck, won a mule skinner's money.

    Chiquita, an American Novel | Merrill Tileston

British Dictionary definitions for mule skinner

mule skinner

noun
  1. US and Canadian an informal term for muleteer

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