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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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
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
In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He was a paperhanger among other things, and a great pair of shears had been lying on the table.
From Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller
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