1an implement used for cutting and neatening something:a hedge trimmer
2a person who adapts their views to the prevailing political trends for personal advancement:he is a clever trimmer, a closet federalist unchanged at heart
3a person who decorates something:window trimmers
4 (also trimmer joist) Architecture a crosspiece fixed between full-length joists (and often across the end of truncated joists) to form part of the frame of an opening in a floor or roof:trimmer joists
5a person responsible for trimming the sails of a yacht:the spinnaker trimmer
a person employed to arrange cargo or fuel in a ship’s hold:a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship
6a small capacitor or other component used to tune a circuit such as a radio set: [as modifier]:trimmer capacitors
7Australian/NZ informal an excellent or outstanding person or thing:you little trimmer—it’ll suit me down to the ground
trimmer in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of trimmer in the US English dictionary
