Definition of "dicker" [dick•er]

• To bargain; barter. (verb-intransitive)
• The act or process of bargaining. (noun)

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• "Such critics had come to Washington, had made their "dicker," danced at the hotel hops, and been jostled on the Avenue."
• "Thus equipped as an itinerant clock repairer, and having a few watches to "dicker" with, he started on foot for Jenkintown, a small place twelve miles from"
• "Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to"