| 单词 | news butcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnews butcher news butcher n. U.S. colloquial a seller of newspapers, sweets, etc., on a train (cf. butcher n. 5). ΚΠ 1873 Little Rock (Arkansas) Daily Republican 18 July Some few days ago a news butcher on the Cairo and Fulton railroad..decamped with his stock in trade. 1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 1 Jan. 3/1 Ben R. Wheeler, an old time and popular news butcher on the Santa Fe..is in the city. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 294 He got a concession as news-butcher on the daily train. 1974 M. Hoyt Thirty Miles i. 2 The hours dragged, but were helped..by the visits of the ‘news butcher’, a uniformed man who came through with papers, magazines, books, candy, fruit and gum for sale. < as lemmas |
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