Usually means: Chief electrician on film set.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word Gaffer:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaffer: Merriam-Webster
  2. gaffer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gaffer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gaffer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gaffer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gaffer, gaffer: Wordnik
  7. gaffer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gaffer, gaffer: Wiktionary
  9. gaffer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gaffer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gaffer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gaffer, gaffer: Dictionary.com
  13. gaffer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gaffer (boss), Gaffer (disambiguation), Gaffer (filmmaking), Gaffer (motion picture industry), Gaffer, The Gaffer (TV series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gaffer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gaffer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gaffer: Rhymezone
  18. Gaffer, gaffer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gaffer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Gaffer: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gaffer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gaffer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gaffer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gaffer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gaffer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAFFER, GAFFER, GAFFER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. gaffer: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaffer, gaffer, gaffer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gaffer: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. gaffer: The Folk File
  4. gaffer, the gaffer: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gaffer)

noun:  (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
noun:  A glassblower.
noun:  Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.
noun:  (colloquial) An old person, usually a man.
noun:  (UK, informal) The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, or publican.
noun:  A sailor.
noun:  (Canada) The baby in the house.
noun:  A surname.

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