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A Web developer by training, he downloaded a computer programming interface, or A.P.I., from Foursquare’s Web site and programmed a script that automatically checked him into Stabber Alley every day at 1:23 p.m.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

Where Stabber went his young men followed unquestioning.

From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Deming, Edwin Willard

Stabber swore he'd gather all his villagers, now herding with those of Wolf; and, having segregated his sheep from the more numerous goats, would personally lead them whither the white man could not follow.

From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Deming, Edwin Willard

It meant that Lame Wolf had listened to reason,—and Stabber, and would permit no fresh attack until his numbers should be so increased that resistance would practically be vain.

From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Deming, Edwin Willard

The Stabber had also seen a great many of the white lodges of the Meneaska, drawn by their long-horned buffalo.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis