What is "carnies"

Usage examples of "carnies".

Solemnly-and sometimes tearfully-we said good-bye to Joel and Laura Tuck, to Gloria Neames, Red Morton, Bob Weyland, Madame Zena, Inna and Paulie Lotus, and other carnies, telling some that we were taking a brief pleasure trip, telling others the truth.

Most were owned by the concessionaires and their families, but a score or two were the property of the Sombra Brothers and were rented out to those carnies, like me, who did not hold title to their own accommodations.

Gibtown is the winter home for carnies from nearly every road show in the eastern half of the country, not just from the Sombra Brothers outfit.

The carnies had shut down the Ferris wheel, Dive Bomber, Tilt-a-Whirl, and other rides.

With the departure of the marks, the carnies had gone to their travel trailers, which were parked in a large meadow south of the midway.

I still had to dispose of the corpse and clean up the blood before daylight made things more difficult for me and before morning brought the carnies back onto their midway.

By the time I closed the concession and headed for the meadow at the back of the county fairgrounds, where the carnies had established their mobile community, it was a few minutes after one o'clock.

Among carnies, however, there is a strong and treasured sense of community that, year by year, never diminishes.

As I approached and then walked in among the first trailers, lights were extinguished here and there as weary carnies went to bed.

I was not surprised that a number of carnies had drifted by the high-striker to have a look at me.

In my experience, of all carnies, dwarves were the quickest to accept a stranger, to open up, the first to trust and smile and laugh.

They were curious, but they were also carnies, and while they didn't mind telling me what I was like, they could never bring themselves to ask about me without my invitation.

It was two minutes past noon, and we had an appointment with Chief Lisle Kelsko for the lunch hour, though not for lunch itself, because we were carnies, and most straight folks preferred not to break bread with the likes of us.

If that was the case, he had assisted me with the dead body and had pointed me toward the oncoming danger at the Ferris wheel solely because those goblin schemes directly affected carnies, the only people to whom he did owe allegiance in this secret war.

carnies say they love to travel, and carnies say they could not live without at least a weekly change of venue, and carnies espouse-hell, they championed-the philosophy of drifters-Gypsies-outcasts, and carnies are sentimental suckers for tales and legends of lives lived on the sometimes perilous borders of society, but wherever they go, carnies carry their village in their luggage.