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Heeler   Listen
noun
Heeler  n.  
1.
A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.
2.
A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. (Political Cant, U. S.) "The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding."





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"Heeler" Quotes from Famous Books



... drilled to overthrow the very men who support them. Civil Service Reform is designed primarily to give the average American citizen a fair chance in politics, to give to this citizen the same weight in politics that the "ward heeler" has. ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... an hour in the Vital Statistics Bureau while the chief smoked cigars with Alf Symmes, that ward heeler. I had sent in our firm card, and the chief held it in his hand and flipped it and smoked and sat where he could look out at me and grin—and when Symmes had finished his loafing they ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day


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