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narrowback noun- an unskilled, unfit labourer US
- Because my parents had been born in America, I was considered a “narrowback”–someone who wasn’t really fit for good labor. — Tip O’Neill with William Novak, Man of the House, p. 3, 1987
- a construction electrician US
A term used with derision by power linemen to describe their intra-union rivals. - — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 12, 1980
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