(also figurative) A man who wields an axe.
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axeman
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for axeman.
Editorial note
If you are basically operating lean or at the redline, you need to fight the fight hard every time the axeman comes.
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Quick take
(also figurative) A man who wields an axe.
Meaning at a glance
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(informal, music) A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for axeman.
noun
(also figurative) A man who wields an axe.
noun
(informal, music) A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone.
Example sentences
If you are basically operating lean or at the redline, you need to fight the fight hard every time the axeman comes.
Nary a coal miner, nor axeman to be found in this ivory tower meeting.
Heya Justin:-) Thanks for the walk down memory lane (I had totally forgotten about axeman!) and the kind words.
I assume this axeman had to integrate with either logs or analytics to get the usage counts?
So, if you're looking for a wicked lead axeman, ring me up.
Accurate axeman, but with that kind of neat log I guess you can have the same results with a regular axe and a good technique.
If you have a rep as an axeman a lot of people won't work for you - no ifs, no buts, no amount of comp will make a difference.
:-) There's also a cartoon (Chuck Jones?) about an axeman defeated by a Gyro Gearloose-type character (with a chainsaw) in tree felling.
Quote examples
>The reason given for the impending visit by the Redmond axeman is "in order to maintain consistency across the Microsoft 365 apps for iOS."
Adam Wiggins, one of the three founders, was one of my favorite software engineering mentors back when we called it programming - as an example, he wrote an early rails plugin called "axeman" for the consultancy that would list controllers and actions by least-often-used, so that we could remove functionality that wasn't worth clients paying for.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use axeman in a sentence?
If you are basically operating lean or at the redline, you need to fight the fight hard every time the axeman comes.
What does axeman mean?
(also figurative) A man who wields an axe.
What part of speech is axeman?
axeman is commonly used as noun.