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noun

handler n.

One who trains or exhibits animals.

Synonyms: animal trainer.

Someone in charge of training an athlete (especially a boxer) or a team. Note: The term is used sometimes sarcastically of political consultants: "the president's handlers".

Synonyms: coach, manager.

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Etymology of 'Handler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handler" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'em, they lap it up, bull ... bull ... bull," Said a movie news reel camera man, Said a Washington newspaper correspondent, Said a baggage handler lugging a trunk, Said a two-a-day vaudeville juggler, Said a hanky-pank selling jumping-jacks. "Hokum—they lap ...

— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... outcome of our total experience is that the world can be handled according to many systems of ideas, and is so handled by different men, and will each time give some characteristic kind of profit, for which he cares, to the handler, while at the same time some other kind of profit has to be omitted or postponed. Science gives to all of us telegraphy, electric lighting, and diagnosis, and succeeds in preventing and curing a certain amount of disease. Religion in the shape of mind-cure ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

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