dickers

One or two players had not yet arrived, "dickers" being under way for their purchase.

Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles Lester Chadwick

A very chatty toddler enthusiastically showed me the 'dickers' the nurse had given her for being such a good girl when she got her shot.

Catholic Exchange 2008

A very chatty toddler enthusiastically showed me the 'dickers' the nurse had given her for being such a good girl when she got her shot.

Catholic Exchange 2008

A very chatty toddler enthusiastically showed me the 'dickers' the nurse had given her for being such a good girl when she got her shot.

Catholic Exchange 2008

As Congress dickers over a landmark green stimulus bill, with vital energy, environmental and climate provisions placed on the chopping block, it's worth recalling the last time an American president tried to spend big to go green - and had the country poised to save the planet before the plug was pulled.

Edward Humes: The Last Green Stimulus 2009

While Yeltsin dodders, Primakov dickers, pursuing a diplomatic solution to the latest crisis in the Persian Gulf and encouraging Saddam to think he can get away with defying the United Nations.

Yeltsin's War Games 2008

After dinner he often went to Portland with Harry and Douglas and watched Harry do his dickers with the various food companies.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

If there will be any blasphemy conducted by the bushers and dickers it must be the ‘Fire of the Houses of Parliaments’, right?

Think Progress » ‘Noxious, risible, fetid thinking.’ 2006

Frank dickers with him in his counting-room, Tommy chases him in the play-ground, Mrs. Asmodeus makes him a fashionable call, and -- God help us all!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

He dickers in animals a little; trains 'em and has 'em doing things right away.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney