[
UK
/ɡˈæfɐ/
]
NOUN
-
a person who exercises control over workers
if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman - an elderly man
- 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