Definition of "carny" []

• Informal A traveling amusement show; a carnival. (noun)
• Informal One who works with a carnival. (noun)

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• "Zaitshik, a second generation carnival worker -- a term he prefers to the word "carny," which is used as a pejorative -- has spent much of his life battling negative stereotypes about his industry."
• "I've always been interested in the carnival or "carny" - that strange parallel world of mutants, outcasts and misfits living according to their own code."
• "(Booster tries to pass as a "carny," but the authorities remember that the Justice Society has been outlawed.) However, for all the nods to continuity, the big reveal gets the first name of the (late) DC hero wrong."