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telegrapher
[< Cdn F télégraphe]
Que., Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who telegraphs.
See: telegraph
Quotations
1957
[On rapporte que clans Notre-Dame-de-Grâce les "télégraphes" ont été très nombreux et des plus discrets.]
1960
There was a way to hand the slip to the DRO . . . so he would know we were "telegraphers."
1962
In an Eastern constituency a candidate once lent his fur coat to a decrepit telegrapher so that he might look more like the prosperous man he was impersonating.