Definitions
Examples
“Zaitshik, a second generation carnival worker -- a term he prefers to the word "carny," which is used as a pejorative -- has spent much of his life battling negative stereotypes about his industry.”
“I've always been interested in the carnival or "carny" - that strange parallel world of mutants, outcasts and misfits living according to their own code.”
“(Booster tries to pass as a "carny," but the authorities remember that the Justice Society has been outlawed.) However, for all the nods to continuity, the big reveal gets the first name of the (late) DC hero wrong.”
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““I have so many chin whiskers I look like carny-folk!” cried Jules, while Laurie gasped that her pores resembled “bullet holes.””
“It's why we're in the freaking carny to begin with.”
Fictionaut: The complete, unabridged contents of an abandoned diary found in Memphis
“Candy Catherine Kusinski from Cleveland, the cutest carny star ever is riding with me to Corpus Christi.”
Fictionaut: The complete, unabridged contents of an abandoned diary found in Memphis
“At 3:00 pm: In City Streets, Gary Cooper plays a carny sharpshooter who goes crooked in order to free his love played by Sylvia Sidney from prison.”
The Huffington Post: Thomas Gladysz: Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival
“Some asian carny who just wants to take American dollars in exchange for mystique.”
“I could hear a lonely carny say very softly, "I got one for two, three for five.”
“I actually felt bad for him for a second ... then I remembered he's a carny.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carny’.
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Car- Trouble
career, careen, carom, carnage, cartwheeling, carter, caribou, carabiner, caracara, caracole, carafe, carageenan and 29 more...
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Nightmare Alley
From the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
geek, mark, rubber, calliope, booze-fool, rummy, the horrors, the crawling snakes, equalizer, bubbies, grubstake, softshoe and 99 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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C is for Caddyshack
My C Words
cavalcade, charlie browniest, cakewalk, clambake, caboose, cadaver, caddyshack, cadillac, cahoots, calaboose, cannonball, canopy and 145 more...
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Without a Paddle (2004)
Words from a 2004 'Without a Paddle' film.
outdo, dip, great call, nagging, TGIF, cobweb, earwax, purty, white-water, christen, teem, carny and 10 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for carny.
yarb Citation on kooch show. Jun 29, 2012
bilby "Amplified clicking sounds came from the message recorder beside the phone as he did so. It sounded like a carny Wheel Of Fortune slowing down."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007