megger
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
megger (plural meggers)
- A megohmmeter.
Usage notes edit
This may be a trademarked name.
Etymology 2 edit
From megaphone (which directors traditionally use) + -er.
Noun edit
megger (plural meggers)
- (slang) A film director.
- 1948 March 6, Billboard, page 44:
- Backers, confronted with the heavy demands of directors, point out that the megger is doing more of a job than the producer […]
- 1949, Charles Reed Jones, Your Career in Motion Pictures, Radio, Television, page 180:
- The megger, as the director is known to the motion picture industry's trade journals, has to be a sort of reservoir of knowledge, know-how, residual bits of information on all subjects and techniques.