yuckster

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From yuck +‎ -ster.

Noun

yuckster (plural yucksters)

  1. (slang) A comedian.
    • 1988 May 20, Lawrence Bommer, “Cardiff Giant's Comedy Sideshow”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      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.
    • 2008, Harlan Coben, One False Move: A Myron Bolitar Novel‎, →ISBN, page 130:
      Real yucksters, these Bradford boys.
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