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yuckster

yuckster noun: a comedian.

Noun

yuckster (plural yucksters)

  1. (slang) A comedian.
    • Much less ambitious, Sideshow is in effect the north-side version of Avant-Garfielde, the ad-lib comedy these eight yucksters have created weekly for the last three years at Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap in Hyde Park.1988 May 20, Lawrence Bommer, “Cardiff Giant's Comedy Sideshow”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2020
    • Real yucksters, these Bradford boys.2008, Harlan Coben, One False Move: A Myron Bolitar Novel, →ISBN, page 130

Forms of yuckster

pluralyucksters
alternative formyukster

Origin of yuckster

From yuck + -ster.

Questions about yuckster

What does yuckster mean?
Yuckster means a comedian.
What part of speech is yuckster?
Yuckster is a noun.
What is the plural of yuckster?
The plural of yuckster is yucksters.

Words near yuckster in the dictionary

  1. yucks
  2. yucks it up
  3. yucks out
  4. yucks someone's yum
  5. yucks up
  6. yuckster
  7. yucksters
  8. yucky
  9. Yucuaiquín
  10. Yucuna
  11. Yucunicoco

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