risker
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɪskə(ɹ)/
Noun
risker (plural riskers)
- One who risks or hazards something.
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346:
- And hither came t'observe and smoke
What courses other riskers took
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References
risker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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