Words to Bring Back: “Illicitator”

– Definition: n. An auctioneer’s shill

– Used in a sentence: “Some of these political rallies seem to reek of illicitators.”

– Why: It’s obscure, yes, but how many illicitators have YOU spotted recently?

Author: Neal Ross Attinson

Neal Ross Attinson is one of those text-compulsives who feels naked without a keyboard, or at least a a pad and pen. He is unafraid of adverbs, loves astronomy and gastronomy with equally unabashed passion, and lives with/in an eclectic library in Sonoma, California.

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