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toolers

toolers is the plural of tooler.

Meaning of tooler

Noun

tooler (plural toolers)

  1. A stonemason's chisel.
  2. One who tools leather.
  3. A criminal who defrauds a fruit machine and steals the money inside.
  4. (UK, obsolete, slang) A pickpocket.
    • Pickpockets took to housebreaking and housebreakers joined gangs of street thieves; cracksmen's mistresses were often toolers and shoplifters.1970, Kellow Chesney, The Anti-society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld, page 168

Questions about toolers

What is toolers the plural of?
Toolers is the plural of tooler.

Words near toolers in the dictionary

  1. tooled
  2. tooled around
  3. tooled up
  4. tooler
  5. Toolern Vale
  6. toolers
  7. Toolesboro
  8. Tooleville
  9. Tooley
  10. Tooley Street tailor
  11. Tooley Street tailors

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