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helper

[ hel-per ]

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noun

a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
Synonyms: ally, auxiliary, backer, supporter, assistant, aid
an extra locomotive attached to a train at the front, middle, or rear, especially to provide extra power for climbing a steep grade. Compare doubleheader, pusher ( def 5 ).

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Origin of helper¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; help + -er ¹

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You say, “Yes,” and before long it becomes an incredibly powerful helper.

I also love any horror movie that was, in part, inspired by a Hamburger Helper commercial.

Susan Helper, Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University The SP is not justified in its downgrade.

My favorite episode is the one where Homer gets a helper monkey named Mojo.

He had great faith in the opinions of his little helper, and was always ready to revise his own judgment if hers contradicted it.

She holds up an ideal of a higher type—a woman who shall be man's intellectual companion, and his helper in the battle of life.

The party was therefore disbanded, and the yet sanguine leader, with Hamilton for his sole helper, continued the work alone.

She comes to the individual man, as she came to me and asks, Is she a cherished weakling or an equal mate, an unavoidable helper?

Thus be thou here to-day gracious to us, a helper in our striving for gain, O good one!

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