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slave driver

noun

an overseer of enslaved laborers and enforcer of hierarchy and discipline in the institution of chattel slavery.
a hard taskmaster:
His boss was a slave driver.

slave-driver

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Colleagues describe Kashkari as sharp, meticulous, and something of a slave driver, despite having a lighthearted sense of humor.

No doubt you would give free play to the strap and the rawhide and other implements of the slave-driver.

Next came a swaggering bully of a slave-driver, evidently bred in the North.

She had in her beautiful kindness redeemed his soul from ignorance, as she had purchased his body from the slave-driver's lash.

This was a sight not new; but in their midst he caught a glimpse of a crested helmet and the black cloak of a slave-driver.

He neglected his carving, waged bloody battles with his fellow workmen, bullied Master Tobias like any slave-driver.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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