DCHP-3

talk muskrat

North, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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discuss the fur trade.

Quotations

1880
Listen to them when several of them are together "talking muskrat," (to use their own term for discussing the business of the Company,) and they have scarcely a good word for the service.
1921
After the two traders had finished "talking musquash"--fur-trade business--they began reminiscing on the more picturesque side of their work.