boilermaker
Americannoun
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a person employed to make and repair boilers or other heavy metal items.
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whiskey with beer as a chaser.
noun
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a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
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slang a beer drink consisting of half of draught mild and half of bottled brown ale
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slang a drink of whisky followed by a beer chaser
Etymology
Origin of boilermaker
Example Sentences
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Additional money is being provided by Hull-based boilermaker Ideal Heating.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025
His father, a boilermaker, was strict and demanding.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2021
Hector Albert Padilla was born March 22, 1930, in Tucson, Ariz., to Manuel, who worked as a boilermaker for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Concepcion, who was a seamstress.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2020
Differing family accounts say his father was either a dockworker or a boilermaker and his mother either a store clerk or a homemaker.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2019
The same reward was given by mistake to the boilermaker, Mohammed Sa'íd Haddád, who had malingered, instead of working, through the night.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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