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exterminator
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) [syn: terminator , eradicator ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "an angel who expells (people from a country)," from Late Latin exterminator , from past participle stem of Latin exterminare (see exterminate ). As a substance for ridding a place of rats, etc., by 1848; as a person whose job it is to do this, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone or something that exterminates. 2 Specifically, a person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Exterminator may refer to: A practitioner in pest control
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exterminator \Ex*ter"mi*na`tor\, n. [L.] One who, or that which, exterminates. --Buckle.
Usage examples of exterminator.
Exterminator whined and tugged on the leash, begging to visit Cole--who studiously averted his gaze.
Fan Importer, a Glass Beveller, a Hotel Broker, an Insect Exterminator, a Junk Dealer, a Kalsomine Manufacturer, a Laundryman, a Mausoleum Architect, a Nurse, an Oculist, a Paper-Hanger, a Quilt Designer, a Roofer, a Ship Plumber, a Tinsmith, an Undertaker, a Veterinarian, a Wig Maker, an X-ray apparatus manufacturer, a Yeast producer, or a Zinc Spelter.
The exterminator had to rebait some of the basement traps, which means some of the poison was eaten, which means something may have died before it reached the outside.
Leroy closed his eyes and saw the tan van with the crisp black lettering on its passenger door, very businesslike: Taglia Exterminators.
There was no listing for Taglia Exterminators in the phone book or Yellow Pages, and Information was no help either.
Taglia Exterminators or Taglia anything else among the multitude of names.
Olane and Moryn are dead, and Diarmid MacDiarmid, whom I should have killed when I had the chance, has destroyed nine more exterminators.
Ask around for exterminators who use this Peter Pan treatment instead of more toxic insecticides.
Although she wasn't happy that her daughter was the world's chosen exterminator of the undead, being clued into the Slayer routine and jargon gave her a sense of belonging that helped her cope.
Not one of those mindless, looney-bin rejects who line the bookracks: The Exterminator, The Extincter, The Ripper, The Slasher, The Wiper-Outer, The Mutilator, The Ix-Nayer, all those same series, with their same covers, their same plots, and their same moronic machine-gunning leads who figure the best way to solve a problem is to shoot it.
A keen student of humanity in the same way that an exterminator makes it his work to understand class Insecta, Dread had not failed to notice the change in her feelings about him.
At the meetings Jube had met a well-known lawyer, a TV weatherman, and a professional exterminator who loved to talk shop and kept giving him cards ('Lots of roaches in Jokertown, I'll bet').