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glowboys

glowboys is the plural of glowboy.

Meaning of glowboy

Noun

glowboy (plural glowboys)

  1. (slang) 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

Questions about glowboys

What is glowboys the plural of?
Glowboys is the plural of glowboy.

Words near glowboys in the dictionary

  1. Glowackis
  2. glowbar
  3. glowbars
  4. glowbelly
  5. glowboy
  6. glowboys
  7. glowed
  8. glowed up
  9. glowedst
  10. glower
  11. glowered

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