shicer
Americannoun
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Slang. a swindler.
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any unscrupulous person.
Etymology
Origin of shicer
1850–55; < German Scheisser, equivalent to scheiss ( en ) to shit + -er -er 1
Example Sentences
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Mr. Howard asked whether the member for Collingwood knew the meaning of the word `shicer.'
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A 'shicer' is first a mining claim which turns out to be useless, and then anything that does so.
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Staggering home to the tent after nightfall he would have been sure, sooner or later, to fall into a dry shicer and break his neck, or into a wet one and be drowned.
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"A reg-lar ol' shicer!" was the unanimous opinion, expressed without scruple.
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Towards the latter end of October and the beginning of November we had such a set of scoundrels camped among us, in the shape of troopers and traps, that I had better shut up this chapter at once, or else whirl the whole manuscript bang down a shicer.
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