steerer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that steers.
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Informal. a confederate who directs potential customers to a gambling game, brothel, drug seller, etc.
Etymology
Origin of steerer
Example Sentences
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A drummer helps keeps the pace and a steerer keeps the boat on course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Adorned with dragon heads and tails, large boats typically hold 20 people — 18 paddlers, one steerer and one drummer, who sets the rhythm for the strokes, like a coxswain.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
There’s also a drummer and steerer on board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jim had become too good a steerer to be beaten now.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Roosevelt, Wyn
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