talk muskrat North, Slang
discuss the fur trade.
- 1880  Listen to them when several of them are together "talking muskrat," (to use their own term for discussing the business of the Company,) and they have scarcely a good word for the service.
- 1921  After the two traders had finished "talking musquash"--fur-trade business--they began reminiscing on the more picturesque side of their work.