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powder monkey

  1. Historical a boy who carried powder from the magazine to the guns aboard a man-of-war
  2. ☆ a person who works with explosives, as in oil fields

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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