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What (who) is GAFFERS - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
The Gaffer; Gaffa; Gaffers; Gaffer (disambiguation)
gaffer
n.
1.
Goodman.
2.
Old rustic, old fellow.
3.
Foreman (of navvies), overseer.
gaffer
(gaffers)
People use gaffer to refer to the the person in charge of the workers at a place of work such as a factory. (BRIT INFORMAL)
The gaffer said he'd been fined for not doing the contract on time.
= boss
N-COUNT; N-VOC: usu the N in sing; N-VOC
Examples of use of GAFFERS
1. The Man With Two Gaffers opens at the York Theatre Royal on Saturday, and then tours.
2. Given the change in the way that servants tend to be seen these days, with independent–mindedness more valued that unthinking obedience, Goldoni‘s servant strikes me as refreshingly modern, a man who does his best to please his gaffers but who will happily cheat and tell them lies to satisfy his own needs.
3. What, however, took us all horribly by surprise, a short while back, was the sudden headlong anabasis from West London of film folk: not only actors and directors and producers gobbling up big houses, but, gobbling up titchy flats, best boys and gaffers and grips.