Plumber

Quick meaning: Plumber is a noun meaning One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.

Meaning

One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.

More Meanings

1. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
2. (transitive, US, slang) To botch or ruin.
3. (intransitive, informal, rare) To work as a plumber.
4. (transitive, informal, rare) To work on (something) as a plumber.
5. (British, 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.
6. (dated) One who works in or with lead.
7. (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist.

Example Sentences

Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets.

It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.”

Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.

[…] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.

Word Forms

• plumbers
• plumbering
• plumbered

Synonyms for plumber

Depending on context, synonyms include plumb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plumbing, plumer, pipelayer, pipeworker, pipe-layer, pipeliner.

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