ventman means A homeless person who stays in front of a vent to keep warm. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 99 out of 100.
Etymology
From vent + -man.
noun
- A homeless person who stays in front of a vent to keep warm.“Charles is a ventman with beautiful dreads. On days when he is not drinking and is lucid, he will tell you how he winters on the south side of the square and sleeps facing the east so that he wakes with the sun in his eyes.”
- An artilleryman with charge of the touch hole.“1st ventman steps up to the breech, passing the tube or primer into the left hand; he pricks with the right, and enters the tube or primer with the left hand, then places the left hand flat upon it”