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boilermakers

boilermakers is the plural of boilermaker.

Meaning of boilermaker

Noun

boilermaker (plural boilermakers)

  1. A person qualified to make or repair boilers.
    • The sole boilermaker visited the out-depots if necessary, but such occasions were exceptional, engines being worked up to Horsham on suitable duties and changed over as required.1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 83
  2. (US) A whiskey with a beer chaser.
    • the beauteous Asian was […] knocking back boilermakers and their helpers at an astonishing pace.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 597

Questions about boilermakers

What is boilermakers the plural of?
Boilermakers is the plural of boilermaker.

Words near boilermakers in the dictionary

  1. boilerhouse
  2. boilerhouses
  3. boileries
  4. boilerless
  5. boilermaker
  6. boilermakers
  7. boilermaking
  8. boilerman
  9. boilermen
  10. boilerplate
  11. boilerplate code

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