Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fisherman.
- n. [lowercase] A luggage thief who steals from vehicles.
- n. [lowercase] A thief who uses knockout drops as an aid to robbery.
Wiktionary
- n. slang a safebreaker
- n. a fisherman
- n. a fishing boat with identical bow and stern.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An obs. local term in Eng. A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter.
Etymologies
- peter (“17th century slang for a safe, cash box”) + man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Besides which, the Saint was prepared to boast that he could make any professional peterman look like a two-year-old infant playing with a rubber crowbar when it came to safe-opening.”
“As a peterman he was a loud ha-ha; as a damper-getter he was just an amateur; as a heel or a houseman, well, them things were just outside him.”
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“While none of these ideas are definite ways of getting a great price, these will definitely help peterman homes for sale you to get back on track fast.”
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“I knew about it -- got it from a peterman who has studied safes and all that sort of thing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peterman’.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Last Names That Are Professions
Let's keep this to reasonably well known family names that are or used to be professions, trades, or arts.
fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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Defunct professions
Economists like to cite "buggy whip maker" as an example of a profession whose career prospects were dimmed, and ultimately quenched, by the inexorable march of technological progress. This is a li...
buggy whip maker, guillemot egg col..., bog iron hunter, nettle string maker, fuller, purple maker, tanner, gut girl, reddleman, wont catcher, navvy, ratcatcher and 239 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. I'd vote for a Mickey Finn. Nov 6, 2012
bilby Two fingers of absinthe? Nov 5, 2012
frogapplause n. lowercase A luggage thief who steals from vehicles.
n. lowercase A thief who uses knockout drops as an aid to robbery.
What's a knockout drop? Oct 31, 2012