paperhangers

They apply wallpaper

Paperhangers are workers who apply wallpaper to walls and ceilings.

The job requires measuring, cutting, pasting, and smoothing paper to create seamless surfaces.

In American slang, a paperhanger is someone who passes bad checks—the image being of someone who "hangs" worthless paper on unsuspecting victims: The FBI finally caught up with the paperhanger who'd been working the Midwest.

trade

paste

Thick sticky substance

  • seamsJoined fabric edges
  • brushBristled cleaning tool
  • smoothingReducing irregularities systematically

installer · decorator · adhesive · trimming · ceiling · corners · pattern matching · bubbles · stripper · steamer

slang

counterfeiter

One who fakes currency

fraud · scam · passing · kiting · con artist · criminal · laundering · Secret Service · funny money · phony

Opposites
wall treatment trade

paperhangerspainters

Those who apply pigment

plasterers · muralists

financial legitimacy

paperhangersfraud investigators

Professionals who expose deception

bank tellers

surface treatment direction

paperhangerssandblasters

Grit-propelling cleaning tools

Family

paperhanger

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G