yuckster

English

Alternative forms

• yukster

Etymology

From yuck +‎ -ster.

Noun

yuckster (plural yucksters)

1. (slang) A comedian.
   • 1988 May 20, Lawrence Bommer, “Cardiff Giant's Comedy Sideshow”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Much less ambitious, Sideshow is in effect the north-side version of Avant-Garfielde, the ad-lib comedy these eight yucksters have created weekly for the last three years at Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap in Hyde Park.

   • 2008, Harlan Coben, One False Move: A Myron Bolitar Novel‎^[2], →ISBN, page 130:

     Real yucksters, these Bradford boys.