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sporter

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

noun sporters

Someone who sports something. But today, the mustache cannot shake its ties to the sexy-yet-buffoonish machismo of the mid-1970s, epitomized by Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott and the Village People, 'stache sporters all.
A firearm suitable for sporting use.
archaic One who takes part in sport or games. Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delic
One who sports or plays with something; a trifler. We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.

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@misc{sporter_2026,
  title = {sporter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sporter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}