Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser"

[Shapiro, Fred]

ambulance chaser (OED 1897)

1896 _Daily Inter Ocean_ (Chicago) 4 June 4 (America's Historical Newspapers)  The "ambulance chaser" who waits to learn of an accident from the newspapers is regarded now as a very unenterprising lawyer. -- New York Sun.


Fred Shapiro

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