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gaffer

[ UK /ɡˈæfɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who exercises control over workers
    if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman
  2. an elderly man
  3. an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set

How To Use gaffer In A Sentence

  • The gaffer is such a good manager that he is bound to attract interest from bigger clubs.
  • The gaffer said he'd been fined for not doing the contract on time.
  • Both men, though, look set to make bigger names for themselves as gaffers than they did as players.
  • It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
  • The gaffer made me captain at the start of the season and I want to be back out there helping the lads get back up the league.
  • Dope and cocaine have become accessible to the grips, the gaffers and the best boys.
  • The new gaffer's come in with his own way of thinking and it's totally different. Times, Sunday Times
  • Old gaffers recited love-poetry, and made the evening shadows creep with more tales about a Greek-tongued demon of the hills.
  • He noticed that one of the old gaffers had a bluish lump under his right ear (he would forget his face but he would never forget his ear) and the girl had a fine golden chain around her bare neck.
  • He said: 'The gaffer just felt a bit let down. The Sun
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