Definition of "mucker" [muck•er]

• Friend (noun)
• Friend or acquaintance (noun)
• A type of worker during the construction of the first Los Angeles Aqueduct, who took out debris. (noun)
• To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts. (verb)

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• "Me old mucker from the GSFWC, Jim Steel, pointed out to me that Gwyneth Jones has reviewed INK in today's Guardian, so I nipped out to pick up a copy ... and was even happier to find that my review is directly under Audrey Niffenengger's review of Kelly Link's MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS."
• "So she found that she was both safer and less safe because the mucker was her companion."
• "Workers, who had lowered a remote-controlled digging machine called a mucker into the mine to speed rescue efforts, were awaiting the arrival of an electrical component so they could employ a digger with larger capacity."