Definitions
Etymologies
- From boiler + maker. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Plastic shot glasses float, and are consequently completely unusable for any of the so-called "boilermaker" drinks.”
“The carpenter at his bench, the blacksmith by his forge, the boilermaker clanging and clattering, are all warbling more sweetly than you.”
“You just have to be a bit of a boilermaker and electrician.”
The Wall Street Journal: Australians Catch Gold-Mining Fever
“Rio Tinto offers subsidized accommodation and annual leave travel assistance for the job of "boilermaker.”
The Wall Street Journal: Could You Be a $200,000-a-Year Miner?
“So if you're interested in being a boilermaker at Rio Tinto's Gove power station in the Northern Territories, you could start here .”
The Wall Street Journal: Could You Be a $200,000-a-Year Miner?
“Nearby, union boilermaker Pete Etoler drew a line between protesting politicians and disrupting the highest-profile event in the Hoosier State's history.”
“His particular poison was a boilermaker of Guinness and Tullamore Dew whiskey, supped noisily and with relish.”
“The boilermaker is so popular in South Korea the country has now become the leading importer of several brands of blended Scotch.”
Voice of America: Scots Hope Free Trade Pact Changes South Koreans’ Tastes
“Saint Patrick's Day is just around the corner again, boilermaker hangover at the ready, but the whole affair seems a little tired.”
“The bar's also serving $4 Jim Beam Rye shots if you want a DIY boilermaker.”
The Washington Post: Getting Up Guide: Battle of the Beers tonight at Bourbon
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boilermaker’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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Oily
Words and phrases that have "oil" in them.
oil, oily, olive oil, crude oil, toil, boil, trefoil, foil, roil, broil, coil, soil and 70 more...
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Who Are You?
No one ever says, "I want to be a somnambulist when I grow up." But don't let that get in the way of organizing your Wordie lists.
chevalier, somnambulist, sommelier, troubadour, vicar, majordomo, caliph, polyglot, polymath, apprentice, nuyorican, privateer and 107 more...
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Food and such
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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B is for Blue Canary
My B Words
bugbear, bette davis eyes, backstroke, barney, babushka, babycakes, backscratcher, bad news bears, balderdash, ballyhoo, baloney, bamboozle and 150 more...
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Occupations
looking for a new career?
speleologist, heliculturalist, apiculturist, volcanologist, oologist, taxonomist, limnologist, sexologist, toxicologist, impresario, cryobiologist, cryptologist and 73 more...
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happy hour
martini, bellini, mimosa, beer, seabreeze, cosmopolitan, manhattan, gin, bourbon, rum, tequila, amaretto and 71 more...
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It's Beer O'Clock
Types of beer.
rumfustian, stoorey, kvass, calibogus, clamber-clown, courmi, cuckoo-ale, dole-beer, egg-flip, gale-beer, grout-ale, home-brew and 85 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Are you kidding?! That was the first list I ever compiled, back in grade school! *rummages through papers* Oct 17, 2007
reesetee Oh, please don't let anyone suggest starting a list of words that mean hurling....
Damn. I just did it. Oct 17, 2007
chained_bear I haven't had one. It sounds like fun, except that when I mix grain and grape, I tend to hurl. Not fun. Oct 17, 2007
reesetee I've had them quite wittingly. Oct 16, 2007
yarb I've drunk boilermakers too, unwittingly. Oct 16, 2007
john A boilermaker is a shot of whiskey followed with a beer chaser. If you pour the whiskey into the beer instead of drinking them sequentially, it's called a sidecar. If you drop the shotglass into the beer and drink them together, it's called a depth charge.
I used to drink these by the bucket, once upon a time. Oct 16, 2007
yarb I've only seen this word used in the context of the Boilermaker's Union. that is, The Internatinal Brotherhood of Boilermakers, or its national affiliates. I think most boilrmakers probably don't make boilers anymore. Ah, the halcyon days of steam! Oct 16, 2007