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swamper
[swom-per]
noun
Informal.a person who inhabits, works in, or is exceptionally familiar with swamps.
a general assistant or laborer; menial.
a person who trims felled trees into logs at a logging camp or sawmill.
Citizens Band Radio Slang.a motorist or truck driver, especially one using a CB radio.
swamper
/ ˈɒə /
noun
a person who lives or works in a swampy region, esp in the southern US
a person who clears a swamp of trees and undergrowth or who clears a path in a forest for transporting logs
Example Sentences
Before his nine-month stint as a “swamper,” assisting in the rigging up and down of drilling and auxiliary equipment at a well site, Smith was an actor, musician and playwright, with Brooklyn liberal politics to match.
I landed work as a swamper for a rig moving company.
A swamper is basically a rigger.
“For the fun of it, I guess. And because I’m a swamper and he’s not.”
My mom, now, she weren’t no swamper, not even close.
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