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plural interrupters
One who or that which interrupts. quotations examples
The interrupter bowed, smiled, stroked his beard, and relapsed into his chair.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit. examples
(slang, humorous) An interpreter (person who interprets speech in a foreign language). quotations
The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'
2005, Ian Oliver, Jan Oliver, War and Peace in the Balkans
The Coldstream Guards were already in place and knocked on the door. Daz Farrugia stood at the door with the Iraqi interrupter. […] The door opened and a middle aged Iraqi man stood there in his pajamas, gobbing off in Arabic, saying who knows what, but I guessed it was not very complimentary; the interpreter managed to calm him down.
2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell: The True Story of a British Sniper's Greatest Battle