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Plumber's need
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plunger
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains [syn: speculator ] someone who dives (into water) [syn: diver ] hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains [syn: plumber's helper ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His left index finger pressed firmly on the telephone plunger as if he were extinguishing a burning cigarette. ▪ How can a sink plunger be so horrific?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "one who plunges," agent noun from plunge (v.). As a mechanism, 1777.
Usage examples of plunger.
We finally withdrew to a safe spot and listened to Tiny and Porta arguing about which of them should be allowed the privilege of pressing the plunger.
Four plunger switches closed, that tiny pilot ray became an enormous rod of force, and as those two gigantic beams met in exact opposition and neutralized each other a solid wall of blinding brilliance appeared in the empty ether behind the Vorkulian fortress.
We had had a washing plunger exactly like this one in our house on Brickyard Row.
The plunger, Schofield guessed, was the part of the machine that drilled down into the ice and obtained the ice cores.
Finally, using a dental fretsaw, he made two lengthwise cuts in the stem of the plunger to receive his slender plastic vanes.
Ryan could only watch as Damm and Nara took turns stabbing each other in the lungs with similar, long-needled hypodermics, teeth clenched, eyes pressed shut as thumbs pressed the plungers home.
The door handle itself was of nonmagnetic brass, concealed in which was a steel plunger, well oiled.
Plunger Plumstead, whose head was sunk, like that of an aged tortoise, into a collar several sizes too large for him, sported an ancient black velvet jacket and a silk scarf.
Richard stood proudly beside Monty, the Labrador, and old Plunger Plumstead was there with an ancient, watery-eyed and evil-looking bull-terrier to whom he might have been closely related.
With a moan, she pushed through the roiling crowds, looking for the entrance to a plunger, the large, ancient elevators that worked the levels in Dahl and most of the other Sectors of Trantor.
Then, as the face grew gray with pain, the anesthesiologist pushed a plunger attached to an IV line, mercifully putting the clone under again.
Returning to the other side of the table, I pushed the plunger down on the coffeemaker and filled two big mugs with steaming coffee.
When that plunger was pushed, the little chatterers would go Off, at the same moment that the barrel went On.
Svetz poured corundum into the chamber, added a dash of chromic oxide, and used the plunger.
Leaning closer, she steadied the lash darkener and lengthener, closed it firmly over the lashes of her left eye, and hit the plunger.