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kinker
noun
A performer in a circus.
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Exact(1)
When he was 20, he joined Mr. Leroy Easter's Traveling Family Circus as a contortionist, or "kinker".
Similar(2)
Ringling Brothers is nicknamed "Big Bertha," performers are "kinkers" and members of the audience are always "rubes".
In 1879 it was a favourite Oxford anecdote that Spooner from the pulpit gave out the first line of a well-known hymn as "Kinkering Kongs their titles take".
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