trimmer

IPA: trˈɪmɝ

One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
A device used to trim.
(nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
(architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
(shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
(mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
(fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
(electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
(dated) One who or that which trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.
A surname.

Examples of "trimmer" in Sentences

I have to use the electric hedge trimmer which is like a massively suped up electric knife.
This battery-powered nose-hair trimmer is shaped like a human finger for faux-nose-pickery hilarity!
We talked about hair and make-up and panty hose and the Norelco nose hair trimmer, which is your friend.
Grooming companies like Philips Norelco are retiring the term "beard trimmer" and calling their new models "stubble trimmers."
The DP's Rudi Heine, during question time in the National Assembly on Wednesday, remarked that Mdladlana looked "trimmer" and that his belly was not as large as the trade unionists had claimed.
From the point of view of the irreconcilables, the diplomatic chief was a "trimmer" and a traitor; and many of the Sioux have tried to implicate him in the conspiracy against Crazy Horse which led to his assassination, but I hold that the facts do not bear out this charge.
One of them had an American passport, which seemed to let him have the freedom of the city; the other one had no passport, and complained that he could not get one, and it was causing him no end of inconvenience, for he found it impossible to get a job at his trade, which was that of "trimmer" on a vessel.