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Definition of Bill sticker
1. Noun. Someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bill Sticker
Literary usage of Bill sticker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"THE bill sticker. I'M Sammy Slap, the bill sticker, and you must all agree, Sirs,
I stick to bus'ness like a trump, and bus'ness sticks to me, Sirs, ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The bill-sticker (we beg pardon for using the almost obsolete and less euphonious
name, but really its new substitute is too lengthy), ..."
3. Seymour's Humorous Sketches: Comprising Eighty-six Caricature Etchings by Robert Seymour, Alfred Henry Forrester, Henry George Bohn (1888)
"WHAT a mysterious being is the bill-sticker! ... The bill-sticker had affixed a
bill upon the hooks of his stick, displaying in prominent large characters—" ..."
4. The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation by William S. Hein & Company (1832)
"A BONE-BREAKING MAGISTRATE—A bill-sticker charged a tradesman, named Powell, with
an assault. The bill-sticker was posting a bill against Mr. Powell's house ..."
5. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"The vocation of a bill- sticker is a highly honorable one, and admits of a great
expansion of ... Isn't that enough 1 Where do you find the bill-sticker ? ..."
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