Gaffer or Gaffa may refer to:
Media
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''Gaffa'' (magazine), a Danish music magazine
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''The Gaffer'' (TV series), a British comedy television series of the early 1980s
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Gaffer Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee (, usually called Sam) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. A hobbit, Samwise is the chief supporting character of ''The Lord of the Rings'', serving as the sidekick of the protagonist Frodo Baggins. Sam i ...
, a hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' franchise
* Gaffer, a character in ''
The Muppets''
* A nickname used by the perpetrator in the
Sheffield incest case
The Sheffield incest case concerns the conviction in November 2008 in Sheffield Crown Court of a 54-year-old English man who, undetected over a period of 25 years, committed repeated rapes of his two daughters and fathered seven surviving child ...
Other uses
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Gaffer (boss)
A supervisor, or lead, (also known as foreman, boss, overseer, facilitator, monitor, area coordinator, line-manager or sometimes gaffer) is the job title of a lower-level management position that is primarily based on authority over workers or ...
, a British colloquial term for "boss", "foreman" or "old man"
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Gaffer (filmmaking), the head of the electrical/lighting department
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Gaffer District (Corning, New York), a historic district of downtown Corning
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Gaffer tape, or Gaffa tape, a type of adhesive tape
* Gaffer, a person who
blows glass
* Gaffer (sailor), of a
gaff rig boat
See also
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