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A glimmer man (sometimes rendered as "glimmerman") was a name unofficially, but [universally], applied to [inspectors] who were employed by coal gas manufacturers in Ireland to detect the use of gas in breach of rationing restrictioons during the [Emergency] (ie. WW2) from March 1942 and in some places as late as 1947. The term is now used as a metaphor for bureaucratic intrusion into privacy.
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