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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Origin of paperhanger
Example Sentences
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In the early 1920s Ausborn fought against the thick-skulled youths lapping up the words of a pallid Austrian paperhanger, but by 1928 he was convinced that Hitler was destroying "everything that was decent in Germany."
From Time Magazine Archive
In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
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
Didn't I send a paperhanger to you with patterns?
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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