DCHP-2
dog-puncher Slang DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who drives a dog team.
See also: dog-driver
- 1899 "I hear you're looking for a dog-puncher," he said, awkwardly.
- 1928 . . . I made up my mind I would become a freighter, or what was called locally a "dog-puncher."
- 1964 . . . Arthur Treadwell, a young dog-puncher, arrived from Dawson with a load of mail.
- 1899 "I hear you're looking for a dog-puncher," he said, awkwardly.