0 someone who takes a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or tries a particular activity for a short period: --
The lake supports only a small number of breeding and moulting dabblers and divers.
Is it not a fact that if present trends continue we shall have a country which is booming for the bond-dabblers and means bankruptcy for the industrialists?
This constantly expanding capacity is just the sort of trap into which inexperienced dabblers in international trade are liable to fall, owing to a temporary and clamant demand.
The problems involved are too complex and important to be left to the dabblers.
The days of paying for poor-quality legal services and subsidising dabblers and jacks-of-all-trades are over.
By the middle of the twentieth century, legislative dabblers had been edged out by a more experienced mode of legislator.
For the novice junkie - or 'dabbler', in jail jargon - this ritual quickly becomes a routine they cannot do without.
How could he warn his kids about drugs when he himself was a dabbler?
