bashers

Noun

basher (plural bashers)

1. 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
   1. 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).
2. (informal) One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
   • a Paki-basher
3. (UK, slang) 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
4. (slang) 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
5. (slang) A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.

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