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sooner definition

☆ sooner (so̵̅o̅n′ər)

noun

  1. a person occupying homestead land, as formerly in the western U.S., before the authorized time for doing so, thus gaining an unfair advantage in choice of location
  2. Informal a person born or living in Oklahoma

Etymology: < compar. of soon

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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