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plural muckers
(UK, slang, Southern England, Northern Ireland) Friend, acquaintance.
(slang, British Army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation. quotations
Too fucking late, son. I didn't want my mucker blown into tiny bits.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 246
A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. examples
(archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgar labourer.
third-person singular simple present muckers, present participle muckering, simple past and past participle muckered
(obsolete, transitive) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts. quotations
In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe.
1548, William Forrest, Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise