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wirepuller

wirepuller noun: a person who exercises an influence on others that is felt but not seen.

Noun (1)

wirepuller (plural wirepullers)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) A person who exercises an influence on others that is felt but not seen.
    • 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.1908, Winston Churchill, Letter to his fianceé Clementine
    • […] there lies, alas, the tragedy of the millions of lives immolated by the ignorant peoples as the price paid for the deception practised upon them by the Imperialistic wirepullers.1919, Foreign Affairs: A Monthly Digest and Interpretation
  2. Synonym of snake (“tool for pulling cables”).
    Synonyms:
    snake

Noun (2) capitalized: Wirepuller

Wirepuller (plural Wirepullers)

  1. Someone from Warrington.

wirepuller meaning in Tamil

wirepuller in Tamil

பாவை இயக்குநர், எந்திரி

Synonyms of wirepuller

Forms of wirepuller

pluralwirepullers
pluralWirepullers

Origin of wirepuller

From wire + puller, suggesting the operator of a puppet; compare pull strings.

From wire + puller, in reference to Warrington's wire industry.

Questions about wirepuller

What does wirepuller mean?
Wirepuller means a person who exercises an influence on others that is felt but not seen.
What is wirepuller in Tamil?
Wirepuller in Tamil is பாவை இயக்குநர், எந்திரி. See Wirepuller meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wirepuller?
Wirepuller is a noun.
What is the plural of wirepuller?
The plural of wirepuller is wirepullers.

Words near wirepuller in the dictionary

  1. wirepersons
  2. wirephoto
  3. wirephotos
  4. wirepull
  5. wirepulled
  6. wirepuller
  7. wirepullers
  8. wirepulling
  9. wirepulls
  10. wirer
  11. wirerimmed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wirepuller (page history and authors); Wirepuller (page history and authors); wirepuller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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