Meaning of Paperhanger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.
2. A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist.
   slang

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Examples

“No one in the street was aware than an Austrian paperhanger named Shickelgruber, and calling himself Hitler, had been arrested in Munich and thrown into jail.”

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