alpenstocker
alpenstocker noun: a mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.
Noun
alpenstocker (plural alpenstockers)
- A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.
- I started to give Lucky a digest of the Perugia affair, but we were interrupted by a group of German alpenstockers who clumped into the chamber under the guide of a female ramrod.1959, Lawrence Levine, The great Alphonse: a novel, page 247
- Careful to step over the bergschrund and not fall down in and get extruded out the foot of the ice centuries hence, as an old glaciology prof used to tell it and cackle, true to some dear dead alpenstocker pipesmoker in the years before the lab took your best years.1982, Clark Coolidge, Mine: The One that Enters the Stories, →ISBN, page 50
Forms of alpenstocker
| plural | alpenstockers |
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Origin of alpenstocker
Borrowed from German alpenstöcker.
Questions about alpenstocker
- What does alpenstocker mean?
- Alpenstocker means a mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.
- What part of speech is alpenstocker?
- Alpenstocker is a noun.
- What is the plural of alpenstocker?
- The plural of alpenstocker is alpenstockers.
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