Meaning

2 senses

  1. Someone or something that steers.

    a person who steers a ship

  2. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

Origin

From steer + -er.

From steer + -er.

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Forms

plural: steerers
Singularsteerer
Pluralsteerers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
runnerA2luggerpicker-uproper
Close in meaning
  • a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot):decoy

Word family

3 related words
Relatedsteer
Derivedbunco-steerersteerer tube

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
steeplesteeplysteerB2stegosaurussteinstellastellar
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