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homer
noun- a job done privately by a tradesman outside of his regular employment UK: SCOTLAND
Glasgow slang. - Ah’ll get that done for ye cheaper than that. Ah know a wee sparkie [electrician] that does homers. — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, p. 77, 1996
- a wound sufficiently serious to require treatment away from the theatre of war AUSTRALIA, 1945
- a referee or sports official who favours the home team US, 1888
- — Zander Hollander and Sandy Padwe, Basketball Lingo, p. 56, 1971
- a sports official or reporter who favours the home team US, 1888
- — Zander Hollander and Sandy Padwe, Basketball Lingo, p. 56, 1971
- Nothing made him angrier than small-town newspapermen –“homers” – who came up to him during campaigns and told him that he was ignoring “local factors.” — Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, p. 40–41, 1973
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