What does "peeler" mean?
A police officer.
Peeler
/ˈpiːlɚ/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A police officer.
- Grammar: peeler is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: artist, belly dancer, bluebottle, bobby.
- Useful contrasts: criminal, offender, suspect.
- Usage evidence: In a pinch, a vegetable peeler can act as a zester.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A police officer. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
"A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go. And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun— 'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone.""
- 2 One who peels.
"According to another superstition, the longer the peel, the longer the peeler's life would be."
- 3 Alternative form of peeler (policeman). Ireland, alt-of, alternative, slang
"The rest, on the contrary, the rather congratulated themselves on having parted with such suspicious company; -- and the little tailor had scarcely time to enunciate his advice, "to be chatting and walking on, as if they weren't thinking of or minding them at all," — when the sergeant of the party coolly took his little self by the collar, while the remaining Peelers, surrounding the others, made them severally captives."
- 4 a device for peeling vegetables or fruits wordnet
- 5 One who peels.; A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
"She and I took a few minutes together once the belts began rolling with red tomatoes and with the shiny cans which clanked their hollow wind-chime twang as they paraded down the chute on the way to their own conveyor belts which ran parallel to the wide ones the tomatoes rode on. In order to get these few minutes she'd had to implement a schedule for the peelers, who were always fighting like schoolchildren to get to the front of the line to claim their places, vying for the best spots where they could grab the biggest tomatoes to fill their cans faster."
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- 6 a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables wordnet
- 7 One who peels.; A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
"From about this time, it became customary to permit the peelers to appear annually before the government, immediately after the termination of the cinnamon-harvest."
- 8 a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music wordnet
- 9 One who peels.; A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment. derogatory, slang
- 10 One who peels.; One who peels or pillages. obsolete
- 11 A device for peeling fruit or vegetables.; A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.
"I like to use a swivel peeler on my apples, mainly because a good peeler removes the skin only, without hacking off the flesh underneath the way a knife will, even in deft hands."
- 12 A device for peeling fruit or vegetables.; An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.
"Fish-processing equipment consists of 33, 181, 189, 188, 694 Baader machines and others which would be replaced for six months by krill peelers with associated devices."
- 13 Something to be peeled.
"To prepare the vignette, the limits of all control areas are scribed as thin lines on one sheet of coated plastic, and a mask is prepared for each of the two colors on plastic sheets with a peeler coating."
- 14 Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
"Xanthan gum was introduced into a traditional, wax-based coating formulation for easy peelers."
- 15 Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.; An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.
"They bought peelers [crabs that would soon shed] and kept them in large wooden floats until the crabs shed."
- 16 An ideal wave.
"Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers?"
- 17 A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
- 18 Someone who breaks horses.
"It took a real good bronc peeler ( horse breaker ) to handle those big 79 broncs ;"
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"In a pinch, a vegetable peeler can act as a zester."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "peeler"?
Common synonyms include: artist, belly dancer, bluebottle, bobby, bobby, bull.
How do you use "peeler" in a sentence?
In a pinch, a vegetable peeler can act as a zester.
How do you pronounce "peeler"?
Pronounced /ˈpiːlɚ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From the surname of Sir Robert Peel, who established the Irish constabulary and London's police force; compare bobby, from the given name.
Etymology 2
From Middle English peler, piller, pyllare, pilour, pelure, pelour, equivalent to peel + -er.