Boilermaker
a person employed to make and repair boilers or other heavy metal items.
whiskey with beer as a chaser.
Contemporary Examples
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Historical Examples
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noun
a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
(Brit, slang) a beer drink consisting of half of draught mild and half of bottled brown ale
(US, slang) a drink of whisky followed by a beer chaser
n.
(also boilermaker and his helper) A drink of whiskey with or in a glass of beer (1930s+)
boilermaker’s delight
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- Boiler-room
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having reached the boiling point; steaming or bubbling up under the action of heat: boiling water. fiercely churning or swirling: the boiling seas. (of anger, rage, etc.) intense; fierce; heated. to an extreme extent; very: August is usually boiling hot; boiling mad. to change from a liquid to a gaseous state, producing bubbles of gas […]