[Fictionary] TROFFER ballot

[J-J Cote]

Troffer definitions.  Pick your favorite and another.  Let me know *before* Flag Day.  And I'll send out the results when I get a break from the screaming madhouse of pressure at work.

Jean-Joseph
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troffer - n. - (antebellum American slang) - advertising space in a newspaper offered at a discount to the political party which the editor supports.

troffer - n. - from "trough". In industrial food processing, a machine that diverts byproducts that are suitable only for non-human consumption.

troffer - n.- 1) One who limps.  2) One who limps for effect or feigns another disability. 

troffer - v. - When an elephant, rhinoceros, or other large lumbering animal plays with a rubber ball, many zoo staffers call it "troffering".  The word seems to have originated in the western U.S. in the 1970s, and is now heard in most North American zoos.  Its origin is unknown, though the the Denver Zoo and Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo each claim it
for themselves.  

troffer - n. - A decorative molding situated several inches below the crown molding. Also, any wall molding used to suspend pictures.

troffer - n. - (obs.) The lever mechanism on a "Noiseless" typewriter (patented by W. P. Kidder in 1914 and marketed from 1917 until the late 1930's) that decelerates the typebar before impacting the ribbon and paper.

troffer - n. - 1. One who adjusts the spacing of lines of type after they have been laid roughly. 2. One who arranges hors d'oeuvre at a wayzgoose.

troffer - n. - A lugubrious mendicant : beggar.

troffer - n. - Woad remover.

troffer - n. -An inverted, usually metal trough suspended from a ceiling as a fixture for fluorescent lighting tubes.

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extra JOKE DEF from Eric

troffer - n. - One skilled in troff. Now endangered in the wild, with a few remaining in private collections.