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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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
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 had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.
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 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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