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mustanger Western U.S.|ˈmʌstæŋgə(r)| Also moustanguer. [f. mustang + -er1.] One who catches or entraps mustangs.
1856Olmsted Journ. Texas viii. 443 The business of entrapping them [sc. mustangs] has given rise to a class of men called ‘mustangers’, composed of runaway vagabonds and outlaws of all nations. 1874M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble i. vii. (1878) 79 Others moustanguers; and their little Indian horses or moustangs. |