coal miner

Noun

Meaning

someone who works in a coal mine

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Examples

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. Peter Cook

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Tom Jones

Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap - it didn't work. Joe Biden

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner. Jason Flemyng

See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings... even the birds stop to listen. Suzanne Collins

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Ann Romney

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