forty-niner: Meaning and Definition of

for•ty-nin•er

Pronunciation: (fôr"tē nī'nur), [key]
— n.
  1. a person, esp. a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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