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English
Etymology
From bill + sticker.
Noun
billsticker (plural billstickers)
- Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 574:Who's that with you? I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan the billsticker. You might put in a good word for us to get me taken on there. I'd carry a sandwichboard only the girl in the office told me they're full up for the next three weeks, man.
Translations
someone who sticks up advertisements