plumber
a person who installs and repairs piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with the water supply, drainage systems, etc., both in and out of buildings.
Slang. an undercover operative or spy hired to detect or stop leaks of news or secret information, often using questionable or illegal methods, as illegal entry or wiretapping.
Obsolete. a worker in lead or similar metals.
Origin of plumber
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How to use plumber in a sentence
Plumbers, hush money, enemies list, smoking-gun tape, the whole nine yards.
Watergate Remembered Four Decades Later at Washington Post Party | Howard Kurtz | June 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNo comment yet from the senator and the governor on their genius of a Plumbers Unit.
How Palin's Resignation Makes Her the True Frontrunner | John Batchelor | July 3, 2009 | THE DAILY BEASTThere aren't many members of Congress who imagine they could be plumbers, and for good reason.
The plumbers lingered on, hour after hour, while we sat and watched the little silver thermometers, and waited.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. ChambersI've been a month trying to get another bathroom put in on the third floor, and plumbers do try the soul.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
Some plumbers' helpers of today seem to think that joint wiping is of no account.
Elements of Plumbing | Samuel DibbleSome plumbers carry a can for the tallow, making it cleaner to handle.
Elements of Plumbing | Samuel DibbleThere'll be fishwives, you know, and Socialists and highwaymen and plumbers and reporters and everything.
Seeing Things at Night | Heywood Broun
British Dictionary definitions for plumber
/ (ˈplʌmə) /
a person who installs and repairs pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
Origin of plumber
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