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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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.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
To keep friends with such a cast of mind, whose motto is Nelson's, you must do your duty; never mind if you sink a shicer, bottom your shaft any how.
From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello
Miners who have stood the working of a Canadian or Gravel-pit shicer, scorn danger in any form.
From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello
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