paper-hanger

Noun

paperhanger (plural paperhangers)

1. Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.
   • No one in the street was aware than an Austrian paperhanger named Shickelgruber, and calling himself Hitler, had been arrested in Munich and thrown into jail.1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 61
2. (slang) A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist.

   Synonyms:

   snide pitcher