splitters

I always thought it was "splitters", but I could be wrong.

McCain Supporter Rants About "Hooligan" Obama And "Socialist" Takeover -- And McCain Agrees 2009

An increased focus on aerodynamics and what the industry sometimes calls air management means that even drivers of family sedans, station wagons and minivans have to be careful not to scrape low-hanging air dams, spoilers and "splitters" in driveway aprons and parking lot curbs.

What to Do About a Car With a Low Air Dam 2009

These "splitters" have done everyhing in their power to advance the proposition, Consevative good, Liberal bad.

Justin Frank: Politics on the Couch: Splitting and Reparation -- Part One 2008

This problem is solved with "splitters" which literally split off a percentage of the light signal so it can be examined.

Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut 2006

This problem is solved with "splitters" which literally split off a percentage of the light signal so it can be examined.

AT 2006

For a generation or more in the recent past the "splitters" had things pretty much their own way; but of late there is a growing tendency to frown down the mania for creating new names.

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price

Among the workers in botany and in every department of zoölogy there have always been the "splitters" and the "lumpers," as they are familiarly called; the former insisting on the most minute distinctions between their "species," thus multiplying them; the latter being more liberal and tending to diminish the number of species in any given group.

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price

In the realm of invertebrate palæontology, however, the "splitters" are still holding high carnival, in spite of the efforts of some very prominent scientists in the opposite direction.

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price

First there were the "splitters," the most expert workmen in the plant, who earned as high as fifty cents an hour, and did not a thing all day except chop hogs down the middle.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

The best paid men, the "splitters," made fifty cents an hour, which would be five or six dollars a day in the rush seasons, and one or two in the dullest.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923