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plumber

UK /ˈplʌm.ə/US /ˈplʌm.əɹ/

noun 5
verb 5
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

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One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
- Mario and Luigi's profession is plumbers.
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(slang) A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
- It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.” — 1979
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(slang) A urologist.
- […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist. — 1958
(old-fashioned) One who works in or with lead.
(UK, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.

verb5

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(informal, rare) To work as a plumber.
- Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets. — 1939
(informal, rare) To work on (something) as a plumber.
(informal, rare) To equip (something) with plumbing.
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(US, slang) To botch or ruin.
- If it was not east of where I had started out, I had plumbered myself sure enough, because I didn’t have the energy to go back the other way. — 1993
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(slang, rare) To do, work, devise (something).
- The other afternoon Silly here pilfered a melody from the classics, threw a little jazz at it and I plumbered some words. I got a copy of them with me now. Grab this while it’s hot, Joe. — 1925

forms

plumbered · plumbering · plumbers

Phrases with plumber

plumber up
To work on (something) as a plumber; to equip (something) with plumbing.

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