megger

plural meggers

1. A megohmmeter.

plural meggers

1. slangA film director.

   Backers, confronted with the heavy demands of directors, point out that the megger is doing more of a job than the producer […]

   1948 March 6, Billboard, page 44

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   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.

   1949, Charles Reed Jones, Your Career in Motion Pictures, Radio, Television, page 180