paperhanger
Americannoun
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a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
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Slang. a person who passes worthless checks.
noun
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a person who hangs wallpaper as an occupation
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slang a counterfeiter
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His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suggested that we go over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission.
From Time Magazine Archive
Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was finished by the following night, for no paperhanger could have had the heart to linger over his work with so many anxious eyes following every movement.
From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson
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