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Comp. World English Historical Dictionary

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Comp. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Comp subs. (printers’).—A compositor. [An abbreviated form of ‘companion’ now peculiar to compositors, but originally applied to pressmen who work in couples, as well as to compositors who work in a ‘companionship,’ or SHIP (q.v.).] GALLEY-SLAVE (q.v.) is a variant; so are ASS (q.v.) and DONKEY (q.v.). Cf., PIG.

1   1870.  The Sportsman, 17 Dec. ‘A Chapel Meeting.’ I stood before the world a journeyman COMP.

2   1886.  Tit-Bits, 31 July, p. 252. At provincial newspaper offices and other establishments applications for work from travelling COMPS are frequent.

3   1888.  W. BLADES, in Notes and Queries, 7 S., vi., 365. The printers who work together in one room are to this day called COMPS.

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