0 a man who is in charge of other workers
1 the person responsible for the lights and other electrical equipment used when making a film or television programme
2 an old man
My gaffer would probably choose a white guy if there was nothing to choose in ability between them.
Workers will be discouraged from challenging gaffers dismissing them, and it will be a sweetener and an encouragement of employers to dismiss workers on a whim.
There were so many clever men among them that they all wanted to be gaffers, every man wanting to conduct the quarry on his own method.
I am talking about the old days when matchboxes containing half-crowns were passed to the gaffers by desperate dockers who were looking for a day's work.
Several companies make rolls of very thin gaffer's or paper tape marketed as spike tape specifically for placing spikes.
Copper vessels called gaffers are decorated with divas (clay lamps), filled with mustard oil, and lit.
What will his gaffer, who is sitting next to him, do?
The people who work like to see the "gaffer"; they occasionally like to see their boss.
