pipe fitter

noun

1. a person who installs and repairs pipe systems.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pipe fitter¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

A subtle reference to Serra’s father, a pipe fitter at a shipyard near San Francisco, it also puts us in mind of Charon’s ferry, shuttling souls across Stygian waters.

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The women took jobs as welders, pipe fitters, and other posts that had only ever been held by men, and produced war materiel at a record clip.

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He dressed for Mr. Magyar’s rally in a T-shirt mocking the village’s former mayor, Lorinc Meszaros, a friend of Mr. Orban’s and a former pipe fitter who is now a wealthy tycoon.

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Hey, 20-something renter who just moved here and wants to upend the status quo, meet the retired pipe fitter with whom you share this city.

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Mr. Banks spent periods working as a pipe fitter with his father, an alcoholic plumber, and at other times taught writing at Princeton University.

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