| 释义 |
truckster rare.|ˈtrʌkstə(r)|
[f. truck v.1 + -ster.]
A base trafficker; cf. truck v.1 3.
1843Knickerbocker XXII. 38 All relics of a former age..exposed for sale in the windows of the trucksters. 1868Tuckerman Collector 83 Many a poet..has degenerated into a hack, a truckster, and a mercenary penman. 1916H. J. Laski in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 40 It gets very nauseating to have the measure of progress taken as a commercial truckster might measure it. 1931A. Uttley Country Child v. 69 He had a pack on his back containing..all the odds and ends of the truckster. |