interrupter

Noun

interrupter (plural interrupters)

1. One who or that which interrupts.
   • The interrupter bowed, smiled, stroked his beard, and relapsed into his chair.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
2. A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
3. (humorous, slang) An interpreter (person who interprets speech in a foreign language).
   • The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'2005, Ian Oliver, Jan Oliver, War and Peace in the Balkans
   • The Coldstream Guards were already in place and knocked on the door. Daz Farrugia stood at the door with the Iraqi interrupter. […] The door opened and a middle aged Iraqi man stood there in his pajamas, gobbing off in Arabic, saying who knows what, but I guessed it was not very complimentary; the...2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell: The True Story of a British Sniper's Greatest Battle