Definitions for slave-driver

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Slave-Driver is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 743 anagrams from letters in slave-driver (-adeeilrrsvv).

Definitions for slave-driver

noun

  1. an overseer of slaves.
  2. a hard taskmaster:

Origin of slave-driver

An Americanism dating back to 1800-10

Examples for slave-driver

"One half hour to get breakfast and Miss Herne's back hair down," Mr. Rooney said, with the callousness of a slave-driver.

An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.

Out to spread the word about what a slave-driver the new director was.

White with anger, Faussel turned on his heel and stamped out—to spread the word about what a slave-driver the new director was.

"She is wus than a slave-driver," the man said to Harold one day.

In fact, they're more often like the lash of the slave-driver than decent business.

slave-driver Legree had driven them out when they demanded a reckoning.

At home in his own island, he labours himself like a slave, and makes his people labour like a slave-driver.

The voters for Gladstone went up to that candidate's booth (the slave-driver, as they called him) with Wilde's colors.

It was the slave-driver speaking, the man who governed with a whip.

Word Value for slave-driver
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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