Definition of "carnie" [carnie]

• Alternative spelling of carny. (noun)

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• "The whole "Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" (as it was grandiosely billed) was a mixture of that return-to-childhood innocence of the end-of-summer carnivals I remembered from my youth, as well as that rather creepy "carnie" overlay which adult eyes see, but a child's eyes do not."
• "Jolene is some kind of carnie or roaming dame of sorts."
• "Everybody has been told they're a carnie, a rock star, a saint, a panhandler and a petty criminal."