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shickster slang (? obs.).|ˈʃɪkstə(r)|
[f. shiksa: see -ster.]
(See quots. 1937, 1965.)
1839H. Brandon in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/1 Shickster, a lady. 1846Swell's Night Guide p. iii, The..bully, or cracksman, who would screw a drum,..collar the shiksters denarly, or paste a green⁓horn. 1882Sydney Slang Dict. 10/2 He got the cant of togs from a shickster whose husband's in a bone-box. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 755/2 Shickster, any (Gentile) woman or girl..a none too respectable girl or woman. 1965English Studies XLVI. 454 The way for shyster in American English is paved by shickster..of Yiddish origin; in criminals’ cant it designated a respectable girl or lady..but it soon deteriorated to ‘prostitute’. |