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busher

busher noun: a major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.

Noun

busher (plural bushers)

  1. (US, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
    • He was talking about me all the time that day in Boston, standing with the bat boy, making cracks. That's all right but when he called me a busher in front of the whole Yank team and then challenged me, I had to fight.August 1952, Baseball Digest Page 37

Proper noun capitalized: Busher

Busher (plural Bushers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of busher

Noun
pluralbushers
Proper noun
pluralBushers

Origin of busher

From bush + -er.

Americanized spelling of either German Buscher or French Bouchard.

Questions about busher

What does busher mean?
Busher means a major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.
What part of speech is busher?
Busher can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of busher?
The plural of busher is bushers.

Words near busher in the dictionary

  1. bushelmen
  2. bushels
  3. bushelsful
  4. bushelwoman
  5. bushelwomen
  6. busher
  7. bushers
  8. bushes
  9. bushes out
  10. bushet
  11. bushets

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