yuckster

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noun

A comedian.

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Meanings

nounyuckster (plural yucksters)

plural yucksters · alternative yukster

  1. slangA comedian.

    Real yucksters, these Bradford boys.

    2008, Harlan Coben, One False Move: A Myron Bolitar Novel, →ISBN, page 130
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    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

Origin

From yuck + -ster.

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APA

yuckster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuckster

MLA

“yuckster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuckster. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yuckster,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuckster.

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