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Record 1 1996-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Someone who comes to the Internet looking to make a quick profit (borrowed from the American Reconstruction period's pejorative term for Northerners looking to make a quick buck off the war-torn South).

OBS

Modern use of touts for merchant bankers in rich but primitive societies (The Faber Dictionary of Euphemisms, R.W. Holder, 1989, p. 48).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

écumeur d'aventures, aigrefin, écornifleur, filou.

Spanish

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