Understrapper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Understrapper is a noun meaning Any underling or inferior in office.
Meaning
Any underling or inferior in office.
More Meanings
- A freelance operator for MI5.
Example Sentences
A fine state of affairs, when a fifteen-dollar-a-week understrapper’s job gets to interfering with the business of an institution like the Wapatomac National Bank.
Alfie was familiar with the term ‘understrapper’. The Harry Fielding Alfie knew was an understrapper; a bob-a-job man for MI5. Somebody who could do a bit of house- or office-breaking, or some surveillance work.
The doctor immediately disappeared, returning soon after with a couple of flasks of wine concealed in the folds of his frock. Through the agency of the Marquesan, he had purchased them from an understrapper of the court.
1977, Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom, Hansard, House of Lords, The Tornado military aircraft, 9 May, 1977, My Lords, if an understrapper from a television company talks to an understrapper of the RAF, you do not expect air marshals to jump.
Word Forms
- understrappers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include underworker, underpuller, under-spur-leather, underling, underusher, underkind.
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