boilermaker

noun
[L940591]

Compounds

Combines

Forms

  • singular : boilermaker
  • plural : boilermakers

Senses

  • person who works in the boiler construction or repair trade
  • whiskey with beer as a chaser

Examples (not attached to a Sense)

    Their mother, Tender Lehman, was in Montana for a family emergency, while her husband, Chris Lehman — who is a boilermaker — was working in Muscatine, Iowa.

    He was a construction worker, a boilermaker, with 20 years of experience building new power plants and doing repairs.

    The bartender had a consolation boilermaker waiting; he gulped half of it before he realized it had been needled with ether.