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Definition of dicker verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dicker

verb
 
/ˈdɪkə(r)/
 
/ˈdɪkər/
[intransitive] (especially North American English)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they dicker
 
/ˈdɪkə(r)/
 
/ˈdɪkər/
he / she / it dickers
 
/ˈdɪkəz/
 
/ˈdɪkərz/
past simple dickered
 
/ˈdɪkəd/
 
/ˈdɪkərd/
past participle dickered
 
/ˈdɪkəd/
 
/ˈdɪkərd/
-ing form dickering
 
/ˈdɪkərɪŋ/
 
/ˈdɪkərɪŋ/
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  1. dicker (with somebody) (over something) to argue about or discuss something with somebody, especially in order to agree on a price synonym bargainTopics Opinion and argumentc2
    Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally US): perhaps from obsolete dicker ‘set of ten (hides)’, used as a unit of trade, based on Latin decem ‘ten’.
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