Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as costermonger.
- n. Eccles., the side hangings of an altar. That part of the altar-cloth which hangs down at either end.
- n. A piece of tapestry or carpeting used as a small hanging, as the valance of a bed, the hanging border of a tablecloth, and the like.
- n. Also called costering.
Wiktionary
- n. A costermonger
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
Examples
“So a coster is twice as likely to lose his reason as a soldier, and five times as likely as a farmer.”
“So a coster is twice as likely to lose his reason as a soldier, and five times as likely as”
“coster" -- "drawing him," while Horace Mayhew took down everything the man said.”
“I feel as if my life and my eternal happiness depend upon my emulating a wild Indian, or a London 'coster' boy.”
“Another star of the halls, Albert Chevalier, sang "coster" songs, inaugurating the "pearly king" costume that would become a London staple, warbling: "Knock 'em in the Old Kent Road.”
“When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto.”
“(Whatever they're up to, they'll probably try to do the same for whatever the revamped moon program is, so need to pay attention - seems to be a big coster with high potential for bigtime overruns).”
“We fought a lot, and while the emotional roller coster was sometimes exhilarating, it had grown tiresome.”
The Washington Post: How many clues does one need to give an overly sexy dresser?
“She smiled into the Virgin's eyes, and that lady delivered herself of a coster ballad with more art than she was aware.”
“I enjoyed it the first time as a pure emotional roller-coster ride, now I enjoy it as movie about something “more” then that - as a movie that actually has something to say about the medium and the genre itself, instead of just offering us an hour and a half of suspense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coster’.
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Stuffie: Monging
Stuff you mong.
iron, war, fish, rumor, squid, word, scare, coster, cheese, hate, scandal, fear and 4 more...
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A Salpicon of Random Palavery
More random words and phrases that reflect my eclectic, stream-of-consciousess style of word and idea gathering.
durometer, mock-grudge, nimini-pimini, chrisom, sine metu, monteverdian, tagh, monodic, sharakan, watermen, wherrymen, winged gudgeon and 137 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2008 more...
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King Gilbert I of Savoy
The great W.S. Gilbert was librettist in the famous Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, producing fourteen operas altogether. They are rich in wonderful Victorian words and usages and very clever rhy...
emollient, escutcheon, supercilious, physiognomy, overbearing, semi-despondent, trousseau, burglary, protuberant, rataplan, indenture, gyrate and 70 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Scots. A piece of arable land. May 10, 2011
hernesheir When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun.
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), Pirates of Penzance Sep 20, 2009
vanishedone The OED also gives (as obsolete): 'A hanging for a bed, the walls of a room, etc.' Sep 25, 2008
milosrdenstvi Also, someone who attacks his parents. Aug 20, 2008
yarb What is monged by a costermonger. May 17, 2008