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Etymology
Possibly derived from
Andrew Hamilton
's skillful defense of
John Peter Zenger
in 1735, though, as the phrase is not attested until 1788, this is uncertain.
Noun
A clever, crafty, or otherwise extremely
adroit
practitioner of
law
.
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