glowboy
glowboy noun: a (male) nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
Noun
glowboy (plural glowboys)
- A (male) nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure.1987 September 14, Gene Bylinskey, “Invasion of the service robots”, in Fortune
- Across the United States, thousands of employees function daily in and around nuclear reactors. An estimated 5,000 unskilled workers are hired by the industry each year as 'jumpers' or 'glowboys' to repair steam-turbine generators.1984 November 12, Ron Scherer, “Life Inside a 'Hot' Reactor”, in U.S.News & World Report
Forms of glowboy
| plural | glowboys |
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Origin of glowboy
From glow + boy or possibly blend of glow + cowboy.
Questions about glowboy
- What does glowboy mean?
- Glowboy means a (male) nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
- What part of speech is glowboy?
- Glowboy is a noun.
- What is the plural of glowboy?
- The plural of glowboy is glowboys.
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