paperhanger
nounUK /ˈpeɪpəhæŋə/ · US /ˈpeɪpɚhæŋɚ/
Etymology From paper + hanger.
1
Someone who puts wallpaper on walls.
- No one in the street was aware than an Austrian paperhanger named Shickelgruber, and calling himself Hitler, had been arrested in Munich and thrown into jail.1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 61:
2
Slang A con man who passes bad cheques or counterfeit paper money; a forger, a con artist.
- Derived terms
- busy as a one-armed paperhanger
- Related terms
- hang paper