Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person, either a lawyer or the agent of a lawyer, who follows up cases of accident in the streets and tries to induce the injured person to bring suit for damages.
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Examples
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Because the Argentinean star Ricardo Dar í n is such a powerful screen presence, and because he played such an astute criminal investigator in the Oscar-winning "The Secret in Their Eyes," it's tempting to assume that Sosa, the ambulance-chaser he plays in the Spanish-language "Carancho," is equally together as a lawyer if not a man.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011
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But now that she dares to speak out against Emperor Obama, she is vilified as a feminist ambulance-chaser, who is just eager to get her face in the news.
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He was an ambulance-chaser lawyer who got rich off of bilking the malpractice system.
Edwards In New NH, SC Ads: "I Was Born For" Fighting Big Corporations 2009
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He was an ambulance-chaser lawyer who got rich off of bilking the malpractice system.
In Big Iowa Speech Today, Edwards Will Amplify Case For Confrontation 2009
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Those who would kick against the goad of the end of history would like to shackle our displacement of the military threshhhold by ambulance-chaser ledgerdemain.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Targeted Killing in US Counterterrorism Strategy and Law: 2009
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Probably not enough to make some ambulance-chaser care about 30% of it.
bac-o-bits 2009
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Re: Edwards is "an ambulance-chaser who made millions off personal injury cases" - That's just the same ol 'hard right wing talk show spin from the last election.
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Though the Conservative leader has been called an ambulance-chaser, the truth is he was right on Georgia even before the current crisis.
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Though the Conservative leader has been called an ambulance-chaser, the truth is he was right on Georgia even before the current crisis.
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Though the Conservative leader has been called an ambulance-chaser, the truth is he was right on Georgia even before the current crisis.
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