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garreter

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garreter (複数形 garreters)

1. Alternative form of garreteer (“poor writer; literary hack”)
   • 1972, Pat Rogers, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture (page 384)
     Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience
     How unhappy's the fate
     To live by one's pate
     And to be forced to write hackney for bread.
2. (obsolete) A thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows.
   Synonym: (スラング) dancer
   • 1889, Charles Tempest Clarkson, ‎J. Hall Richardson, Police! (page 260)
     [A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys.

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