Punchers

"And what do you think of a couple of punchers -- _punchers_, mind you -- that sit down and eat bacon and drink coffee and don't as much as say 'come in'?" ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)

The Britishers called their punchers “cow servants.” ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

The punchers were a reckless, joyous crew, skylarking in anticipation of the towns of the plains. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

They were all "punchers," had worked together, knew each other's affairs, etc., etc. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)

The house we stopped at was warmer and more comfortable than the average hotel in the West, but the partitions were very thin, so when a couple of "punchers," otherwise cowboys, took the room next to ours, we could hear every word they said. ❋ Elinore Pruitt Stewart (N/A)

Manuel and Jose, and all the good-hearted, honest "punchers" who loved her and who would no more have hurt her feelings than they would have made an infant cry. ❋ Amy Bell Marlowe (N/A)

With such horses to offer, she could pick and cull among the best "punchers" in the West. ❋ Max Brand (1918)

a shelf-table; behind the movable back are a cupboard and the cook's store-lockers, always well stocked, for the 'punchers' (men who brand the cattle) are men of mighty appetite. ❋ Various (1873)

But both are basically ticket punchers for large institutions that should have and would have been assessing their own risk, except that their own creditors, including depositors, judged them "too big to fail," creating a milieu where they could prosper without being either transparent or cautious. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Ready to cry from twenty hours in the saddle, he learned to ignore the thousand aching creaks in his body and with the stoic brag of silence to withstrain from his blankets until the hard-bitten punchers led the way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not that I'm any better than the sailors an 'cow-punchers I travelled with, - I was cow-punchin' for a short time, you know, - but I always liked books, read everything I could lay hands on, an '- well, I guess I think differently from most of' em. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Looks like the UK is plagued with the same sorts of “ticket punchers” we have in the states. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

The first was among the most powerful punchers in the history of the sport, and Mr. Foreman beat Mr. Frazier twice. ❋ Stephen Miller (2011)

After college, his father, in despair, sent him among the cow-punchers of a Wyoming ranch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would salute you, honorable polar bear punchers, but unfortunately Knut bit off my hands. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor on time-clock punchers, failed teachers completing "wordsearch" puzzles in DOE district office desk jobs, or naively conceived Special Education programs, which, because they don't work, are cost-ineffective. ❋ Michele Somerville (2011)

The knock against these pulverizing boxer/punchers is that they don't take enough chances, don't go for the knockout. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Michael Hastings 'reporting also suggests that among the U.S. military officers in Afghanistan there are a number of ticket punchers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[that guy] is [such a] puncher ❋ Chirs (2005)

I was on a [puncher] for [two hours]. Take a puncher! [punch] puncher ❋ An Múinteoir Cliste (2009)

I went to the [fight] last night and [saw] a Nacho Puncher. It got [ugly]. ❋ Bearsnake (2013)

I was [canoeing] down the [fjord] when some cock puncher [flipped] me with their wake! ❋ TLRJohnny (2019)

[That there] is a [super puncher]. ❋ Diego PHD In Fuckery (2019)

"This game is such a fucking [baby puncher]!" "[TRAFFIC] IS [SUPER BAD]! IT'S A REAL [BABY PUNCHER] OUT THERE" ❋ Gomer_the_sissy (2010)

I'm glad he didn't [kick the dog], but did that [Muffin Puncher] really have to ruin [my coffee] cake pastry? ❋ Scrabble Muffin Puncher (2014)

Dude 1: Hey, WTF is Sam doing over there? Dude 2: Oh that - he's a dick [puncher] Dude 1: [Why the fuck] would you punch your own dick? Dude 2: [Fuck knows] ❋ The_Black_Scot (2009)

[Man] [that guy] is [such a] super puncher ❋ The Man The Myth The Cowboy (2019)

[Mikey] pissed the day away doing [no work] and then immediately [left right] after his boss did. What a clock puncher! ❋ C. Daley (2006)