used as a slang term to refer to inside electrician
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Lineman refer to inside wireman as narrowbacks
Hey look at that narrowback pulling wire through that conduit.
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A lazy person of Irish descent who will not perform any honest work.
The narrowbacks stole my potatoes.
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A child of Irish immigrants who is considered too soft to do hard physical labor.
"You narrowbacks would never make it in the old country..You don't know what hard work is."
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