clodhopper

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One line confirms what the audience suspected: The clodhopper is in fact a shrewd judge of character.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2021

It started with Jeffery Campbell Litas in 2010, the hipster girl’s platform clodhopper of choice.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2019

One of the Mets made a clodhopper move on the bases, and was tagged out.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019

One-hundred years later you may wonder what possible connection this quaint clodhopper has to tell us about the gargantuan heavy equipment company?

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 7, 2018

It all started about the time a tough young New Orleans comet man named Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong climbed off a train in New York wearing clodhopper policemen’s shoes, and started playing with Fletcher Henderson.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey