biscuit shooter
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biscuit shooter (plural biscuit shooters)
- (US, slang) A waiter, waitress, or cook.
- 1920, "The Ballad of Locoed Lem", Ballads of the West by William Earl Harvey:
- Oh, wise biscuit-shooter what slung ham an' eggs / At th' puncher straight out o' th' west. / She was perty an' sweet an' was trim on her pegs.
- 1920, "The Ballad of Locoed Lem", Ballads of the West by William Earl Harvey:
References
- Chase, G. D. (1913). Dialect Notes (American Dialect Society) 4 (1): 2. OCLC 1566578.
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