cragger

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English

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Etymology

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From crag +‎ -er.

Noun

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cragger (plural craggers)

  1. (informal) A mountaineer.
    • 2008 March 2, Bruce Barcott, “The Higher They Climb”, in New York Times[1]:
      An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.