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 lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
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
He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Though strictly a paperhanger by trade, he could be plasterer too when he liked.
From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie
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