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- noun Alternative spelling of
carny .
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Examples
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The whole "Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" (as it was grandiosely billed) was a mixture of that return-to-childhood innocence of the end-of-summer carnivals I remembered from my youth, as well as that rather creepy "carnie" overlay which adult eyes see, but a child's eyes do not.
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The whole "Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" (as it was grandiosely billed) was a mixture of that return-to-childhood innocence of the end-of-summer carnivals I remembered from my youth, as well as that rather creepy "carnie" overlay which adult eyes see, but a child's eyes do not.
Chris Weigant: Heart-Stopping Hallowe'en Horror, Left And Right 2010
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The whole "Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" (as it was grandiosely billed) was a mixture of that return-to-childhood innocence of the end-of-summer carnivals I remembered from my youth, as well as that rather creepy "carnie" overlay which adult eyes see, but a child's eyes do not.
Chris Weigant: Heart-Stopping Hallowe'en Horror, Left And Right 2009
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Jolene is some kind of carnie or roaming dame of sorts.
Expecting Rain 2009
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Jolene is some kind of carnie or roaming dame of sorts.
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And now, having learned this, with our eyes and ears a little more open, the campaign promises start to sound like the hustle of an old Coney Island carnie working over an easy mark.
Matthis Chiroux: Skinner Box Elections and the Political Slot Machine: Why Young People Won't Play in 2012 Matthis Chiroux 2011
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And now, having learned this, with our eyes and ears a little more open, the campaign promises start to sound like the hustle of an old Coney Island carnie working over an easy mark.
Matthis Chiroux: Skinner Box Elections and the Political Slot Machine: Why Young People Won't Play in 2012 Matthis Chiroux 2011
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And now, having learned this, with our eyes and ears a little more open, the campaign promises start to sound like the hustle of an old Coney Island carnie working over an easy mark.
Matthis Chiroux: Skinner Box Elections and the Political Slot Machine: Why Young People Won't Play in 2012 Matthis Chiroux 2011
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Everybody has been told they're a carnie, a rock star, a saint, a panhandler and a petty criminal.
Trial Cycle Oliver Hunt 2011
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Back home in the States he worked as a carnie Bobo, a song and dance man, and a whip-crackin', knife throwin', lariat twirlin' old time cowboy variety performer from border to border and coast to coast.
The Ballad Of Sideshow Sam & The Heckler sean m. poole 2011
sheldonfarrell commented on the word carnie
noun usu. as adj. informal
a carnival or amusement show : a carny atmosphere.
• a person who works in a carnival or amusement show.
December 11, 2006