dog-puncher

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who drives a dog team.

Quotations

1899

"I hear you're looking for a dog-puncher," he said, awkwardly.

1928

. . . I made up my mind I would become a freighter, or what was called locally a "dog-puncher."

1964

. . . Arthur Treadwell, a young dog-puncher, arrived from Dawson with a load of mail.