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Wirepuller

noun

Etymology

From wire + puller, suggesting the operator of a puppet; compare pull strings.

  1. inherited from puller
  2. compounded as wirepuller — “wire + puller”

Definitions

  1. Someone from Warrington.

  2. A person who exercises an influence on others that is felt but not seen.

    • 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.
    • […] there lies, alas, the tragedy of the millions of lives immolated by the ignorant peoples as the price paid for the deception practised upon them by the Imperialistic wirepullers.

  3. Synonym of snake (“tool for pulling cables”).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA