mucker


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mucker

(ˈmʌkə)
n
1. (Mining & Quarrying) mining a person who shifts broken rock or waste
2. slang
a. a friend; mate
b. a coarse person
ˈmuckerish adj
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muck•er

(ˈmʌk ər)

n.
Slang. a vulgar, ill-bred person.
[1890–95]
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Translations

mucker

[ˈmʌkəʳ] Ncompinche m
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mucker

n
(Brit inf) → Kumpel m (inf)
(US inf) → ungehobelter Kerl, Bauer m (inf)
(Min: = person who removes muck) → Lader m
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There he lay, a very queer specimen of boyhood, by name Diggs, and familiarly called "the Mucker." He was young for his size, and a very clever fellow, nearly at the top of the fifth.
Don't I know the look on men's faces when they think me a - a 'mucker,' as they call it out here?
ISHALL no doubt see my old engineering union mucker Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, at the party conference in Liverpool next week.
He had just an hour's notice but Jason Donovan pedalled as fast as his feet could carry him to London's Hyde Park on Sunday night for a special surprise appearance alongside his old mucker Kylie Minogue.
DD's old mucker Dominic Raab may have his job, and a seat at the Cabinet table where he can stuff his chops with Pret a Manger chicken caesar and bacon baguettes, but he doesn't matter much.
Sidney's old mucker Rev Sam Milburn (Andrew Knott) returns.
Mucker Capital has launched Mucker III, a USD45 million seed-stage venture capital fund, the company said.
Eight members of the 10-strong team completed the gruelling 20-mile course and two completed the Half Mucker - a 13-mile course with 150 obstacles.
Earlier that morning, a rifleman--Art (The Mucker) Steele, a Korean War vet who was doing time on field CB (confined to barracks)--was ordered to clean the battalion HQ grills and pots and pans following the colonel's breakie.