chucker-out
Americannoun
plural
chuckers-outEtymology
Origin of chucker-out
1875–80; chuck out + -er 1
Example Sentences
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An' then we throws the things about, Till someone calls the chucker-out.
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When the bill was presented by the courteous "chucker-out," we found that most unluckily neither of us had any money.
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They could not feel that the Prohibitionist, that vulgar chucker-out, was chucking Chaucer out of the Tabard and Shakespeare out of the Mermaid.
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The two of them, with a large chucker-out, had finally landed in a heap in Leicester Square—with the hatless gentleman underneath.
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On the first landing was another guard, a heavy, brutal-looking fellow who was no doubt the "chucker-out."
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