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mudkicker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Alternative form of mud-kicker. ▸ Prostitute.
    • Whenever we'd be laying around late at night and we'd hear a toilet flush somewhere in the building, Mike would say “Uh, uh, there's one of them mudkickers again,” and he'd run up and chase them out, yelling “G'wan, you didn't pay no room rent around here, scat!" 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House:
    • Within a month the Michigan mudkicker found her new master and the naive young pimp was stuck with a brace of howling crumb crushers. 1971, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, →ISBN, page 171:
    • She was three-quarter Kelsey with mossy glossy hair, She was a stompdown mudkicker and her mug was fair. 2004, Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, →ISBN, page 106:
  2. Alternative form of mud-kicker. ▸ Laborer.
    • They are just as superstitious as some mudkickers who believe in any kind of signs. 2011, David Maurer, The Big Con, →ISBN:
    • Doesn't matter if these boys are illiterate mudkickers or college boys. They'll still aim that musket and do their best to kill that scoundrel over there who might be trying to do the same thing back. 2012, Jeff Shaara, A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, →ISBN, page 64:

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