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US
/ˈhændiˌmæn/
]
[ UK /hˈændɪmən/ ]
[ UK /hˈændɪmən/ ]
NOUN
- a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
How To Use handyman In A Sentence
- The itinerant handyman is driving through the Arizona desert when he realizes that his car radiator is in need of water.
- If the wells are made of brick, a mason or a skilled handyman can add another row or two of bricks on top of the existing wall.
- Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old handyman who died shortly after an encounter with police, was autopsied by McGarry in 2005. Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System
- Ms Grant, who has previously regaled us with tales of her family's butler and the slaughter of innocent birds and beasts up north, recalled being taken with her sisters to school ‘by a handyman’ who had a motorbike and sidecar.
- She found a handyman who put up bookshelves made of green, unaged timber, which she knew would warp and sag. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- He puts on the toniest accent he can muster, while the other guests drop names 'like a handyman scattering rawl-plugs'. The Times Literary Supplement
- It is set in a health farm run by a targe, whose handyman is an amiable drunk.
- Both were highly corrupt and the smart writer proved an excellent handyman to put through their deals, shady and otherwise.
- He's the club secretary, the manager and the voluntary handyman.
- I use the term handyman deliberately because it has a kind of unsophisticated connotation that is meant to quietly offend an expert tradesperson. EzineArticles