Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A traveling amusement show; a carnival.
- noun One who works with a carnival.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
carney .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who works in a
carnival . - noun The jargon used by carnival workers.
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Examples
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Zaitshik, a second generation carnival worker -- a term he prefers to the word "carny," which is used as a pejorative -- has spent much of his life battling negative stereotypes about his industry.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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I've always been interested in the carnival or "carny" - that strange parallel world of mutants, outcasts and misfits living according to their own code.
The Guardian World News Daniel Kalder 2010
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I've always been interested in the carnival or "carny" - that strange parallel world of mutants, outcasts and misfits living according to their own code.
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(Booster tries to pass as a "carny," but the authorities remember that the Justice Society has been outlawed.) However, for all the nods to continuity, the big reveal gets the first name of the (late) DC hero wrong.
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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At 3:00 pm: In City Streets, Gary Cooper plays a carny sharpshooter who goes crooked in order to free his love played by Sylvia Sidney from prison.
Thomas Gladysz: Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival Thomas Gladysz 2012
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Some asian carny who just wants to take American dollars in exchange for mystique.
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“I have so many chin whiskers I look like carny-folk!” cried Jules, while Laurie gasped that her pores resembled “bullet holes.”
'Cougar Town' recap: Sex, snacks, and videotape | EW.com 2009
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I could hear a lonely carny say very softly, "I got one for two, three for five."
Buffalo Daze Tyler 2009
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It's why we're in the freaking carny to begin with.
The complete, unabridged contents of an abandoned diary found in Memphis James Lloyd Davis 2011
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Candy Catherine Kusinski from Cleveland, the cutest carny star ever is riding with me to Corpus Christi.
The complete, unabridged contents of an abandoned diary found in Memphis James Lloyd Davis 2011
bilby commented on the word carny
"Amplified clicking sounds came from the message recorder beside the phone as he did so. It sounded like a carny Wheel Of Fortune slowing down."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007
yarb commented on the word carny
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June 30, 2012