Verb (used without object) : They dickered for hours over some of the finer points of the contract. From Dictionary.com.
Such critics had come to Washington, had made their "dicker," danced at the hotel hops, and been jostled on the Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to. From Wordnik.com. [Oak Openings] Reference
I didn't want to dicker till my friends turned up. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
You can dicker with Hillary; find some middle ground. From Wordnik.com. [Camille Paglia thinks Hillary Clinton has "a Nixonian reflex steeped in toxic gender bias."] Reference
But Everts wasn't the sort to dicker even for his life. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
Hatred thickening his voice, he settled down to dicker. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
Trying to shame me/dicker in order to get cheaper cards. From Wordnik.com. [ponderings on the MIL] Reference
If you want to dicker with the Boss, that's your nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Reiffeins Choice] Reference
Mogaba had a couple of his lieutenants dicker for supplies. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
And the House may dicker over that and maybe go into committee. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008] Reference
They were going to dicker like merchants while a boy lay dying. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
After the dicker we can make him a present of the whole shebang. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Gold] Reference
Lazarus let the pawnbroker conduct both sides of the dicker. \par. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
And Congress can dicker about what constitutes being “a law.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional”] Reference
You may be able to get it for less if you dicker ar are buying lots. From Wordnik.com. [boveda brick] Reference
Tell Nelson he has a deal and dicker about the financial details later. From Wordnik.com. [Dean To Florida Senator Bill Nelson: Sorry, We're Not Funding A Revote] Reference
While the dicker was pending, a young clerk from a store door, yelled to. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Get in there and dicker, and save yourself some money this holiday season. From Wordnik.com. [Haggling works--even online, says our poll] Reference
For low - and medium-priority missions they learned to dicker with the AWACS. From Wordnik.com. [The Kabul-ki Dance] Reference
When they realize that the secret is out, they may be scared enough to dicker. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift From Earth]
You want to dicker over whether they were "collaborative" links concerning 9/11?. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
"Some other team in the American league trying to make a dicker for you?" asked Joe. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
He was too worn out by the emotional funeral to dicker with Gingrich on the ride home. From Wordnik.com. [Missing The Moment] Reference
The market place hums exotically with a cosmopolitan air as families dicker with peddlers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Wage discrimination against women in an affront: but Harper's crew want to dicker about it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Fifteen minutes for Towers to suit up and get here, maybe a short dicker-then whoosh! the party is over. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
There's some dickering over price, or at least, the merchant draped in his silks and baubles attempts to dicker. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1] Reference
Now, if I can put through that dicker with Caswell's six horses -- say, I just got onto that horse-buyer to-day. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XIII] Reference
While American politicians dicker over increasing the minimum wage, here in Bulgaria the politicians are acting. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-07] Reference
So you can, you know, dicker around with it, which the Republicans love to do, but the reality is things are better. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jimmy Carter Discusses President Clinton's Convention Address - August 15, 2000] Reference
Shoppers will have the option to dicker online with a dealer over what they will pay, or bargain with several dealers. From Wordnik.com. [GM, eBay to Test Online Car Sales] Reference
This incredible development is what happens when we let Yankees dicker with things that should be left to Southerners. From Wordnik.com. [ELMER FUDD'S BRUNSWICK STEW] Reference
They set off in the jolly-boat or the gig, and leave one of their number to dicker with say Pullings or Babbington, eek. From Wordnik.com. [The pirate smiles the fabulous smile of celebrity.] Reference
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