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glowboy

noun

Etymology

From glow + boy or possibly blend of glow + cowboy.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as glowboy — “glow + boy”

Definitions

  1. A (male) nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high…

    A (male) nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

    • In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure.
    • Across the United States, thousands of employees function daily in and around nuclear reactors. An estimated 5,000 unskilled workers are hired by the industry each year as 'jumpers' or 'glowboys' to repair steam-turbine generators.
    • A key question to this study is whether the temporary employees are getting assigned the dirty work. It has been alleged that temps are used as glowboys or radiation sponges.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for glowboy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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