Meaning of Plumber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who works in or with lead.
   dated
2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
3. One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
4. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
5. In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
   British, informal
6. A urologist.
   derogatory, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.””

“[…] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.”

“Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.”

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