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View synonyms for horse trader
horse trader
noun
- a person who is shrewd and clever at bargaining.
- a person who trades in horses.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of horse trader1
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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Example Sentences
Suppose a horse is blind in one eye and the prudent horse trader says nothing.
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"I ain't no way shore about that," said the horse-trader easily.
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He looks to me like a Yankee horse-trader, who is too intimate with the devil and his ways to be at all alarmed about them.
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The preceding incident leads to another, in which Lincoln himself figures as a horse-trader.
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He also looked at their teeth, rolling up their lips, horse-trader fashion.
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