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Definition of Crapshooters
1. crapshooter [n] - See also: crapshooter
Literary usage of Crapshooters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"In a group of crapshooters who laugh down a police raid he finds the irrepressible
high spirits which carry the negroes in imagination back to a regal Congo ..."
2. Investigation of the Conduct of the Excise Board of the District of Columbia by United States Congress. Senate. Special committee to investigate conduct of Excise board of the District of Columbia. [from old catalog] (1915)
"Mr. NEWKIRK. Yes. Senator JONES. It is simply a place largely of carousal? Mr.
NEWKIRK. Yes; common prostitutes, crapshooters, and thieves frequent it. ..."
3. Stranger to Death by Robert Della Valle (2000)
"Lone crapshooters. "Maybe that's why it didn't happen between us." "That is
exactly the reason why it didn't happen. I knew that you would walk, ..."
4. Farm Organizations by United States Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency (1921)
"Every craft, trade, and profession, even down to loafers and crapshooters, has
its guild, union, society, clique or clan, ready for concerted effort in ..."
5. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"In a group of crapshooters who laugh down a police raid he finds the irrepressible
high spirits which carry the negroes in imagination back to a regal Congo ..."
6. Investigation of the Conduct of the Excise Board of the District of Columbia by United States Congress. Senate. Special committee to investigate conduct of Excise board of the District of Columbia. [from old catalog] (1915)
"Mr. NEWKIRK. Yes. Senator JONES. It is simply a place largely of carousal? Mr.
NEWKIRK. Yes; common prostitutes, crapshooters, and thieves frequent it. ..."
7. Stranger to Death by Robert Della Valle (2000)
"Lone crapshooters. "Maybe that's why it didn't happen between us." "That is
exactly the reason why it didn't happen. I knew that you would walk, ..."
8. Farm Organizations by United States Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency (1921)
"Every craft, trade, and profession, even down to loafers and crapshooters, has
its guild, union, society, clique or clan, ready for concerted effort in ..."
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