Dicker

Quick meaning: Dicker is a verb meaning (intransitive) To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.

Meaning

(intransitive) To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To barter.
2. (intransitive) To fiddle.
3. (US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
4. (obsolete) A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.

Example Sentences

to make a dicker

The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves.

They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.

Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to "trade" rifles, and watches, and whatever else they might happen to possess, almost to their wives and children.

Word Forms

• dickers
• dickering
• dickered

Synonyms for dicker

Depending on context, synonyms include daker, huckster, chaffer, haggle, higgle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chaffer, haggle, higgle, huckster, dibble, diddle.

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