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smalltimer

smalltimer is the alternative form of small-timer.

Meaning of small-timer

Noun

small-timer (plural small-timers)

  1. A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things.
    • She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man

Forms of smalltimer

pluralsmalltimers

Questions about smalltimer

What is smalltimer the alternative form of?
Smalltimer is the alternative form of small-timer.

Words near smalltimer in the dictionary

  1. smalltalk
  2. Smalltalker
  3. Smalltalkers
  4. Smallthorne
  5. smalltime
  6. smalltimer
  7. smalltimers
  8. Smalltimore
  9. smalltown
  10. Smallville
  11. Smallvilleverse

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