Meaning & use
Paperhanger
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A person whose job is to apply wallpaper to walls, or, in informal slang, someone who passes bad checks.
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The paperhanger carefully smoothed each strip of wallpaper to avoid air bubbles.
Police arrested the con artist, a notorious paperhanger who had swindled several banks.
A note on using this word
The slang sense of "paperhanger" meaning a check forger comes from the idea of "papering" the town with worthless checks.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Slang for a person who passes fraudulent checks.
The detective had tracked the paperhanger through three states.
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