crushers

Noun

crusher (plural crushers)

1. Someone or something that crushes.
   • […] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, London: Trübner & Co., page 1
2. A machine designed to crush rocks.
3. (dated, slang) A policeman.
   • Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Literature of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 25
4. (obsolete, slang) Something overwhelming.
   • “She is a crusher, ain’t she now!” Mr. Foker asked of his companion.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850...

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