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tunnelist

tunnelist noun: someone who digs tunnels, especially as a hobby.

Noun

tunnelist (plural tunnelists)

  1. Someone who digs tunnels, especially as a hobby.
    • The tunnelist showed me the cellar he'd dug beneath his house.
    • Details about the backyard tunnel in Queensland revealed by Calgary police today are scarce — we know it was an alleged storehouse for stolen goods, and little else. But building a 30-foot tunnel is a huge amount of work, even more so if you're trying to keep it secret, as the famous Toronto...2016 April 12, “How did he do it? Building a backyard tunnel is no easy task”, in Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alb.: Postmedia Network Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2016

Forms of tunnelist

pluraltunnelists
alternative formtunnellist

Origin of tunnelist

From tunnel + -ist.

Questions about tunnelist

What does tunnelist mean?
Tunnelist means someone who digs tunnels, especially as a hobby.
What part of speech is tunnelist?
Tunnelist is a noun.
What is the plural of tunnelist?
The plural of tunnelist is tunnelists.

Words near tunnelist in the dictionary

  1. tunnelfuls
  2. tunneling
  3. tunneling time
  4. tunneling times
  5. tunnelings
  6. tunnelist
  7. tunnelists
  8. Tunnell
  9. tunnelled
  10. tunneller
  11. tunnellers

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