Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Man who's learned caution: leader of mob holding bank up ", 8 letters:
bookworm

Alternative clues for the word bookworm

Word definitions for bookworm in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bookworm was a British humoristic comic strip, first published on April 22, 1978 in the magazine Whoopee! and survived Whoopee! 's merger with Whizzer and Chips in 1985, becoming a Chip-ite. It was drawn by Sid Burgon for most of its history, although Barry ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an ideal gift for the bookworm in the family ▪ I was a real bookworm when I was a child. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fox never could understand why the bookworm had to read to gain knowledge.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookworm \Book"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be ...

Usage examples of bookworm.

Then you grow up to a life of fatboys and four-eyes, bullies and bookworms, fudgers and smudgers.

We bookworms are all of us now and then betrayed into an extravagance.

He did not play the schoolmaster, like bookworms who get poor little lads in their grasp.

I let him know without saying as much that I had no financial worries, that I was neither an athlete nor a bookworm, that I intended to sandwich a very good series of very good times in between the necessary study.

The old bookworm is so intoxicated with the sight and handling of the priceless treasures that he cannot bear to put one of the volumes back after he has taken it from the shelf.

And, now that she thought about it, Kari the bookworm was suddenly hanging out with several kids who had nothing in common, including Anya and Michael.

So what if she was just a little too plump, so what if she could have been the poster girl for Bookworms Anonymous?

I thought we could conduct an experiment to see if a cat can sniff out bookworms.

There seemed to be little chance of regaining the poem without a fearsome struggle, and besides, without the bookworms and the Prose Portal, Polly would stay in her Wordsworthian prison forever.