facers

Noun (1)

facer (plural facers)

1. (obsolete, slang) A blow in the face, as in boxing.
   • I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the...1856 May, Thomas Hughes, quoting Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], London: Macmillan and Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page lvi
2. (broadly, slang) An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
   • “You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 6

   Synonyms:

   slap in the face

3. (slang) A serving of alcoholic drink; a dram.
   • Dory[…]poured a little whisky into a glass, and grew reminiscent. “I had a facer myself this morning before I came down,” he said.

Noun (2)

facer (plural facers)

1. (obsolete, slang) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

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