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Definition: HEELER |
HEELERNoun1. A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. 2. A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs. |
Date "HEELER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Politician, activist; candidate, aspirant, hopeful, office-seeker, front-runner, dark horse, long shot, shoo-in; supporter, backer, political worker, campaign worker; lobbyist, contributor; party hack, ward heeler; regional candidate, favorite son; running mate, stalking horse; perpetual candidate, political animal. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Blue Heeler Pup" by Sheila Broumley Commentary: "A close up of our new Blue Heeler puppy - Sydney Blue - in a rare moment of stillness. :-)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
Expression using "HEELER": ward heeler. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HEELER": naked-heeler, ward-heeler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "HEELER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | رجل أعمال محلي (ward heeler). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кърпач (cobbler, mender). (various references) | |
French | balancier à talon (live heel boom attachment). (various references) | |
German | Befehlsempfänger (heelers, recipient of an order, underling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sarokfelszegezõ, bizalmi ember. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eelerhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homem de confiana (henchman), galo que luta bem. (various references) | |
Russian | посадчик каблука. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prišipetlja (hanger-on). (various references) | |
Spanish | muñidor (ward heeler). (various references) | |
Turkish | peşini bırakmayan kimse, adamı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HEELER": heelers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HEELER": cartwheeler, freewheeler, wheeler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HEELER": cartwheelers, freewheelers, wheelers. (additional references) | |
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"HEELER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eeler, Egeler, Habeler, haele, Hafler, Haseler, healper, Healter, heedle, heela, heele, heeli, heelo, heeze, Heile, Heiner, Heitler, hekler, helar, heleen, helleri, hellner, Henelik, hexer, hieger, hobelar, Hoeller, hyle, hylen, hyler, meeler, weeler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reheel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-l-r" | |
-2 letters: heel, here, herl, leer, lehr, reel. | |
-3 letters: eel, ere, her, lee, ree. | |
-4 letters: eh, el, er, he, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-l-r" | |
+1 letter: heelers, reheels, wheeler. | |
+2 letters: cheerled, erewhile, ethereal, lechered, reheeled, wheedler, wheelers. | |
+3 letters: blethered, cheerlead, cheerless, chevelure, elsewhere, ephemeral, erewhiles, freewheel, gearwheel, hellebore, helleries, leathered, lecheries, reheeling, sheerlegs, sheltered, shelterer, telphered, wheedlers. | |
+4 letters: bellwether, cheerleads, chelicerae, chevelures, ephemerals, ethereally, freeholder, freewheels, gearwheels, heavenlier, heliometer, hellbender, hellebores, herculeses, lederhosen, lengthener, letterhead, prehensile, reschedule, shelterers, telephoner, waterwheel, wheelhorse. | |
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