Mucker
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Mucker may refer to
- A person's last name
- On a farm, a "mucker" is a person who shovels feces ("muck") from animal stalls in a barn. A "mucker" is a person who mucks, i.e., shovels[1][2]
- In publishing, a mucker (or muckraker) is a person who digs through the figurative feces (see On a farm) to find the truth.
- In mining, a mucker is a person who shovels broken ore or waste rock into orecars or orebuckets.[3]
- Muckers is the nickname of a group in Pietism, followers of certain theologians
- The Mucker, a 1914 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- In North American ice hockey "Mucker" is synonymous with a Grinder as a player who is tough and hardworking with a willingness to "do the dirty work" and "dig out the puck". It is often used in combination, "He's a mucker and grinder."
- In British and Irish English "mucker" is a colloquialism meaning "friend".[4]
- Muckers, also known as ring toss (not to be confused with the ring toss carnival game) or circle horseshoes, is an outdoor game, commonly played at summer camps.
- Mucker, a neologism coined by John Brunner in his novel Stand on Zanzibar to describe people who run amok
References
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- ↑ "mucker, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. http://oed.com/view/Entry/123172. Retrieved 20-02-2012.
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