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Exterminator

Exterminator \Ex*ter"mi*na`tor\, n. [L.] One who, or that which, exterminates.
--Buckle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exterminator

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, by 1938.

Wiktionary
exterminator

n. 1 Someone or something that exterminates. 2 Specifically, a person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building.

WordNet
exterminator

n. someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) [syn: terminator, eradicator]

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Exterminator

Exterminator may refer to:

Exterminator (horse)

Exterminator (May 30, 1915 – September 26, 1945) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby, and in 1922 won Horse of the Year honors.

Exterminator (roller coaster)

The Exterminator is a steel roller coaster located at Kennywood Park, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. The ride was developed by Reverchon Industries.

The ride is heavily themed around the concept of the rider as a rat attempting to escape from Kennywood exterminators. The concept is a pun off of the phrase " Wild Mouse roller coaster", which describes this type of coaster, characterized by small cars (4 people/car for Exterminator) and sharp turns. Much of the theming takes place in the line for the ride, which includes such elaborate media as fake news broadcasts, and is usually the park's longest, being usually or beyond a 40-minute wait. The ride is very dark and unique, as the introduction says "unlike any ride you've rode before". The tracks are fast, rough, include a few sudden falls, and end with a fast finale that includes flashing lights, and the car seemingly spinning out of control. Like other spinning wild mouse coasters, the cars face forwards for the first half of the ride, but are free to spin during the second half.

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').