billsticker

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See also: bill sticker

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bill +‎ sticker

Noun[edit]

billsticker (plural billstickers)

  1. Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 574:
      Who's that with you? I saw him a few times in the Bleeding Horse in Camden street with Boylan the billsticker. You might put in a good word for us to get me taken on there. I'd carry a sandwichboard only the girl in the office told me they're full up for the next three weeks, man.

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