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English
Etymology
paper + hanger
Pronunciation
Noun
paperhanger (plural paperhangers)
- Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.
1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 61:No one in the street was aware than an Austrian paperhanger named Shickelgruber, and calling himself Hitler, had been arrested in Munich and thrown into jail.
- (slang) A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist.
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Translations
someone who puts wallpaper on walls
slang: a con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist