understrapper
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of understrapper
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Michael Palin also threatened to "make the torture worse by shouting a lot", a role that fell to Sajid Javid, a Treasury understrapper who bellows a very great deal.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2013
From the domineering boss down to the smallest understrapper, the spirit of the jailer and turnkey is dominant.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood
When I was an understrapper," he was wont to say, "the land was overswarmed and eaten up by officialdom.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Sometimes he instructed an understrapper to pretend to be making a trade with him.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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