Definitions for dickers

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dickers dick·er

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IPA: /ˈdɪk ər/

Dickers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in dickers (cdeikrs).

Definitions for dickers

noun

1. a petty bargain.
2. a barter or swap.
3. an item or goods bartered or swapped.
4. a deal, especially a political deal.
5. the number or quantity ten, especially a lot of ten hides or skins.

verb (used without object)

1. to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
2. to barter.
3. to try to arrange matters by mutual bargaining:

Origin of dickers

First recorded in 1795-1805; perhaps v. use of dicker²

Examples for dickers

"I did not," confessed Mr. dicker, with a mixture of shame and abhorrence.

Published tariffs were only the starting point for "higgle" and "dicker."

Some other team in the American league trying to make a dicker for you?

I know him; that is to say, I want to dicker with you, and through you with Jones.

The only thing America lacks is a tough, take no prisoners "Negotiator-in-Chief" to dicker America's way to the top again.

It looks to me as if 'twould be pretty good business to dicker with him.

For his services, Mr. dicker received from the Lords of the Treasury the sum of 500l.

"I'm a hustler on a dicker, and a hellion on junk," snapped the boss.

dicker, I want you to bring in a bill to make Fastburg the only capital.

Yet the men had an ineradicable propensity to dicker among themselves.