DCHP-3

heeler†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Politics, Slang

a subservient party worker who comes to heel readily when ordered.

Quotations

1890
When Orange toughs meet / For a row on the street, / Stirred up by political heelers.
1943
"Judges," she said, "are all political heelers or they would not be judges."
2n. — West

See quote.

Quotations

1963
For each such crew was a "heeler," a mounted cowboy who would go into the heat and dust and noise of the herd to rope out the calves one at a time by the heels and drag the bawling and protesting infants up to the fire. . . .