gaffer

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What seemed like a split second later the gaffer was all in my face, givin 'it some bunny, veins-a-poppin' and being all Mr. Angry like.

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  1. noun An electrician in charge of lighting on a movie or television set.
  2. noun Chiefly British An old man or a rustic.
  3. noun Chiefly British A boss or foreman.

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  • Everyone's attention was on the far side of the studio and not a soul noticed Rune walk up to a gaffer, a heavyset man in jeans and a white striped shirt. —  Hard News
  • Tiny rapid flashes of light exit the barrels of the Uzis the first AD and the gaffer are aiming at the black truck, which keeps racing defiantly toward us. —  Glamorama
  • But at the moment the gaffer is playing me out wide right, and I am enjoying being back in the side. —  TEAMtalk Football News
  • Sadly, it didn't happen, and Rafa the gaffer has been left with a little bit of egg on his face. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Reading around various other football sites, I have seen that your gaffer is most revered in the football communities in which he has played / managed previously - most notably on Teesside.
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  1. Probably alteration (influenced by grandfather) of godfather.

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  1. from gaff + -er.
  2. English dial., a further contr. of gramfer, a dial. contr. of grandfather: see grandfather. Cf. gammer, contr. of grandmother.
 

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