Meaning of plumber up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To botch or ruin.
   rare, slang, transitive
2. To work on (something) as a plumber; to equip (something) with plumbing.
   colloquial, rare, transitive

Examples

“When a pilot no longer heeds the demands of vanity or misplaced pride; when he attempts not to salvage a plumbered-up approach with a desperate bit of squirming and jockeying, but rather shrugs it off as a well-deserved object lesson in complacency and tools around the circuit again—then he is a real pro.”

“Even bananas are in trouble, though not from the weather. The maritime strikers have “plumbered up” the shipping situation to the extent that the demand far exceeds the supplies.”

“I do not think we should pull any punches in laying out the failures of Lodge to utilize the Station properly, the damage done by “blowing” covert assets…and the fact that MACV plumbered up a lot of very good work on the part of the station as a result of [redacted]…”

“The Palace of Justice! This was where the cabo had told me I was to receive a fair trial and be shot immediately. The jota boys had certainly plumbered things up for me. It looked like I had come to some sort of an end, even if it hadn’t been a perfect day.”

“....... did anyone actually move to the edge of their seat or think there was a chance in hell he'd score ? I was typing a response to an ss post, and didn't even bother to look until the last second to see how he'd plumber it up.”

“When Charlie White was the Ops boss at SubPac, he met with my PCO class (he'd had a great tour as CO WAHOO). He said this about commanding a submarine: "Command is easy ... if you don't plumber it up ... so don't plumber it up." […] Rather than over-analyze this, let's just admit that this guy 'plumbered it up.'”

“The tooth was not pulled but the dentist found a couple of cavities which he plumbered up a little.”

“And when the job is done and the inhabitants are settled in their shined-up, painted-up and plumbered-up dwellings, it will be interesting and important to see what percentage of these places is kept by their occupants in that condition, and what percentage is allowed to sag swiftly back to slumminess.”

“He knocked out three or four of Marvin’s teeth, jabbing around, trying to plumber up that rock of cocaine.”

“The diner will seat 45, and a kitchen and storage area will soon be built on to the back. The car already includes a single bathroom, still intact. “It’s ready to be plumbered up,” [Jack] Powers said. If all goes well, the father-and-son team hopes to open the family-oriented diner by June 2009.”

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