plumber up

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plumber up

verb plumbers up · plumbering up · plumbered up

rare, slang, transitive To botch or ruin. When a pilot no longer heeds the demands of vanity or misplaced pride; when he attempts not to salvage a plumbered-up approach with a desperate bit of squirming and jockeying, but rather shrugs it off as a well-deserved object lesson in complacency and tools around the circuit again—then he is a rea
colloquial, rare, transitive To work on (something) as a plumber; to equip (something) with plumbing. The tooth was not pulled but the dentist found a couple of cavities which he plumbered up a little.

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@misc{plumber_up_2026,
  title = {plumber up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plumber%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}