DCHP-1 Online
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.
- 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.