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odd-job man

odd-job man noun: synonym of handyman.

Noun

odd-job man (plural odd-job men)

  1. (informal) Synonym of handyman.
    • Over the last few years he had made a haphazard living skippering yachts for day-trippers or as an odd-job man in the quiet winter months.2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    handyman

Synonyms of odd-job man

Forms of odd-job man

pluralodd-job men

Questions about odd-job man

What does odd-job man mean?
Odd-job man means synonym of handyman.
What part of speech is odd-job man?
Odd-job man is a noun.
What is the plural of odd-job man?
The plural of odd-job man is odd-job men.

Words near odd-job man in the dictionary

  1. odd-cum-short
  2. odd-cum-shorts
  3. odd-even
  4. odd-eyed
  5. odd-job
  6. odd-job man
  7. odd-job men
  8. odd-jobbed
  9. odd-jobber
  10. odd-jobbers
  11. odd-jobbing

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