billposter

[bil-poh-ster]

noun

1. a person who posts bills and advertisements.

billposter

/ ˈbɪlˌpəʊstə /

noun

1. a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc

Other Word Forms

• billposting noun
• billsticking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of billposter¹

First recorded in 1860–65; bill ¹ + poster ¹

Example Sentences

He had to consider his face in the light of an open warrant of caption, or billposter and placard, of the thoughts which were behind it.

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At one point he took a job as a billposter.

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Marie was cook, housemaid, valet, mother, doctor, and any number of things beside to Knight; just as in the village across the stream where she lived—or rather slept o' nights—she was billposter, bell-ringer, and town crier, to say nothing of her being the mother of eleven children, all her own—Knight being the adopted twelfth.

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“I’d as soon eat billposter’s paste as codfish.”

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The entrance was from the street, through a door in a billposter's hoarding; and on the river not far away the steamboats hooted, and, in windy weather, the floorboards hummed to keep them company.

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