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bullwhacker en · NOUN

Etymology

From bull + whacker.

Meanings

  1. (US) The driver of a bullock team.
    • But I wasn't good medicine for myself after I left them, he admitted, remembering the dreary years of failure at farming and trading, as blacksmith and deck hand and bullwhacker. 1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 33:

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Synonyms

carrier · teamster · bullocky