basher
UK/ˈbæʃə/US/ˈbæʃɚ/
basher noun: one who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
Noun
basher (plural bashers)
- One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
- Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14
- Before the days of pneumatic rivet guns, the member of a riveting team who hammered the rivet to upset the bucktail to form the field head (see rivet).
- One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
- a Paki-basher
- He was beaten up by a queer-basher.
- A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.
- There are bashers and bashers, of course. Most of them, like 'Bob', try to travel as far as possible behind a particular type of locomotive. 'Bob' likes Class 37 diesels.2004, Ian Marchant, Parallel Lines, Bloomsbury, →ISBN
- Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero
- A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
- Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.2014, LA Clarke, Callsign Whiskey, page 24
- I was well used to sleeping out under the stars whatever the weather. I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.2018, John-Paul Jordan, Joys of War
- A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.
- A kind of small floodlight.
Proper noun capitalized: Basher
Basher (plural Bashers)
- A surname from Arabic.
Examples of basher in a sentence
- It's impossible to count how many harassers and bashers are growing discouraged at the sight of 12 or so queers in black and teal uniforms walking down the street in tight formation.1991 August 17, Steve Karpf, “Don't Tread On Us!”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 5, page 1:
- Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.2017, Ian Carter, British railway enthusiasm, page 102:
Forms of basher
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bashers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bashers |
Origin of basher
From bash + -er.
Variant of Bashir.
Words formed from basher
Words that rhyme with basher
Questions about basher
- What does basher mean?
- Basher means one who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
- How do you use basher in a sentence?
- It's impossible to count how many harassers and bashers are growing discouraged at the sight of 12 or so queers in black and teal uniforms walking down the street in tight formation.
- What part of speech is basher?
- Basher can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce basher?
- Basher is pronounced /ˈbæʃɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of basher?
- The plural of basher is bashers.
Words near basher in the dictionary
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