Meaning of sporter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who sports something.
2. A firearm suitable for sporting use.
3. One who takes part in sport or games.
   archaic
4. One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.

Equivalents

Examples

“But today, the mustache cannot shake⟳ its ties to the sexy-yet-buffoonish machismo of the mid-1970s, epitomized by Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott and the Village People, 'stache sporters all.”

“Charles Lack-wit will have⟳ it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack⟳ of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest⟳ of the club of gentlemen sporters.”

“We have⟳, however, good reason⟳ to suspect⟳ the Legislature will soon adopt⟳ means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.”

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