boilermaker
Americannoun
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a person employed to make and repair boilers or other heavy metal items.
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whiskey with beer as a chaser.
noun
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a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
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slang a beer drink consisting of half of draught mild and half of bottled brown ale
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slang a drink of whisky followed by a beer chaser
Etymology
Origin of boilermaker
Example Sentences
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Additional money is being provided by Hull-based boilermaker Ideal Heating.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
His father was a boilermaker on the Lake Erie Railroad and Lujack was often kidded that he should have gone to Purdue, not Notre Dame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
His father, a boilermaker, was strict and demanding.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Differing family accounts say his father was either a dockworker or a boilermaker and his mother either a store clerk or a homemaker.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2019
And immediately turning to the other set of women charged with rolling stones down upon the enemy's heads, "To work, my brave women!" shouted the boilermaker.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne
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