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n. - One who ejects troublesome persons; bouncer.

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Usage examples (18)
  • The latter is of gigantic stature; quite a "chucker-out;" in a uniform between that of a German bandsman and a Salvation
  • One senior lodger, a fine Norman-looking stevedore named Steve, was known as ‘head of the house’, and was arbiter of disputes and unpaid chucker-out.
  • The suggestion made by an Irishman, Mr. Sullivan of Reuter's Agency, to employ a London "chucker-out" did not at all appeal to his notions of the traditions of Parisian...
  • I had registered my traps myself, and was looking out for some one to carry them to the den in which you are penned till the train arrives, when, lo! the chucker-out!...
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