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telegrapher [< Cdn F télégraphe] Que., Slang 
n. a person who telegraphs.
See also: telegraph
- 1957 [On rapporte que clans Notre-Dame-de-Grâce les "télégraphes" ont été très nombreux et des plus discrets.]
- 1960 There was a way to hand the slip to the DRO . . . so he would know we were "telegraphers."
- 1962 In an Eastern constituency a candidate once lent his fur coat to a decrepit telegrapher so that he might look more like the prosperous man he was impersonating.
- 1957 [On rapporte que clans Notre-Dame-de-Grâce les "télégraphes" ont été très nombreux et des plus discrets.]