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Meanings of gaffer in English
Synonyms
Examples for "antique"
Examples for "antique"
1
Homer was thus at once contemporary in content and antique in form.
2
The enthuriasm for installing bar rooms has created a new antique market.
3
The genuine antique or fake was not on it; it was missing.
4
I suspect it's an antique, probably worth a fortune in today's market.
5
She opened her antique guidebook to the city, published sixty years before.
1
He says, 'Let me help you with that, oldtimer.'
2
Pilgrims and tenderfeet they were, and their lack of foresight might well shock an oldtimer like Murphy.
3
A reg'lar oldtimer it's agoin' to be.
4
Frankie P., the Lunch Bunch oldtimer who was chairing the meeting, asked if someone wanted to do the Chip Club.
5
The oldtimer would have bombarded it with a large brunette pill about the size and color of a damson plum.
1
I'd've thought an old-timer like you would've known to bring a radio.
2
Despite his youth, Kane is something of an old-timer in musical terms.
3
He feels constantly on him the amusedly critical eye of the old-timer.
4
He remembered the advice of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled.
5
The old-timer was his enemy of the river pirates, old Shorty Thunder.
1
You dont tell me that old geezer has a brother a Monsignor!
2
Didn't you call that old geezer a coward as well? she asked.
3
Galimore thought the old geezer was probably exaggerating about the threats and harassment.
4
And that net stuff, you know, is what this old geezer knows best.
5
There was a weird old geezer if ever there was one.
Russian
оператор по свету Spanish
iluminista Head electrician for film and TV crews.
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Usage of gaffer in English
1
They were securely held down with gaffer tape and plastic safety bridges.
2
I got hold of some gaffer's tape and thrashed for the surface.
3
Under the gaffer we have controlled matches more than we've been controlled.
4
Methinks, gaffer ass, you might as well have said Sir Grandpaw Steed.
5
To him Randall went at once, saying, So, gaffer, how goes it?
6
Into the middle of this talk came Sam, bursting in with his gaffer.
7
Team News:Feeding the media is a necessary evil when donning the gaffer's cap.
8
Christian Epps: A gaffer is in charge of executing the lighting.
9
This gaffer contrived to 'bilk' all the turnpikes in the kingdom.
10
The gaffer has picked up on it and it seems to be working.
11
The scene looked surreal, like a movie set lit by an overzealous gaffer.
12
To me, gaffer tape is the best piece of design in the world.
13
A stonemason and the bricklayer's gaffer are swiping at each other with battens.
14
The last person they passed was a sturdy old gaffer clipping a hedge.
15
So you just stick gaffer tape over their eye, don't you?
16
The gaffer has given me that opportunity to step in and make that impact.
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Portuguese
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