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pipe fitter

American  

noun

  1. a person who installs and repairs pipe systems.


Etymology

Origin of pipe fitter

First recorded in 1885–90

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That is how Owen Chance, a senior at Lathrop High School in Lathrop, Mo., got into a regional vocational program for high-school students, learning to be a pipe fitter.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

Older brother Ralph Wellman Brewer wrote on a GoFundMe page that Peyton Brewer-Ross was “doing well in life,” with a job as a pipe fitter he loved.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2023

He had told doctors he was pipe fitter James Kelly.

From BBC Oct. 8, 2022

Mr. Fuller struggled with agriculture, and eventually became a pipe fitter for Pacific Gas & Electric.

From New York Times Jun. 28, 2022

The rest of the research staff included a machinist and pipe fitter, a general utility girl, a glass blower to make special apparatus, and Chitty.

From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack

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