GAFFER meaning: Chief electrician on film set

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word gaffer:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

gaffer: Merriam-Webster
gaffer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
gaffer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
gaffer: Collins English Dictionary
gaffer: Vocabulary.com
Gaffer, gaffer: Wordnik
gaffer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Gaffer, gaffer: Wiktionary
gaffer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
gaffer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
gaffer: Infoplease Dictionary
Gaffer, gaffer: Dictionary.com
gaffer: Online Etymology Dictionary
Gaffer (boss), Gaffer (disambiguation), Gaffer (filmmaking), Gaffer (motion picture industry), Gaffer, The Gaffer (TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Gaffer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
gaffer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
gaffer: Rhymezone
Gaffer, gaffer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
gaffer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Gaffer: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
gaffer: FreeDictionary.org
gaffer: Mnemonic Dictionary
gaffer: TheFreeDictionary.com
gaffer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

gaffer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

GAFFER, GAFFER, GAFFER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
gaffer: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

gaffer, gaffer, gaffer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
gaffer: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
gaffer: The Folk File
gaffer, the gaffer: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
▸ noun:  A glassblower.
▸ noun:  Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) An old person, usually a man.
▸ noun:  (UK, informal) The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, or publican.
▸ noun:  A sailor.
▸ noun:  (Canada) The baby in the house.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

foreman, boss, chief, honcho, antique, old-timer, mossback, old geezer, best boy, grip, more...

Opposite:

underling, subordinate, employee

Types:

best boy, key grip, production designer, location scout, more...

Phrases:

gaffer tape, gaffer tapes, more...

Adjectives:

old, young, good, little, poor, aged, ancient, black, wretched, experienced, dear

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