Definition of understrapper in English:
understrapper
nounˈʌndəstrapəˈəndərˌstrapər
dated, informal An assistant or junior official.
just about every top-rank honcho vamoosed, with quite a few of their understrappers
Example sentencesExamples
- Out rushed the members, and away went the strangers, leaving the house deserted by nearly all except the officers and understrappers.
- The English staff administering this territory seldom exceeds more than five or six officials, to carry out whose orders there exist a company of native clerks and a regiment of understrappers.
- He is an understrapper; a sort of odd-job freelancer for the British intelligence agency, MI5.
- Ben, who was Mr Cook's understrapper until yesterday afternoon, marched sombrely down the street.