finishers

Noun

finisher (plural finishers)

1. A person who finishes or completes something.
   • The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line.
2. A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.
3. (dated) The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding.
   • If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.1838, Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, Illinois
4. A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
5. The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.
   • A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]1934 June, Robert E. Howard, “General Ironfist”, in Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine
6. (informal) A finishing move.
   • Tie Up Fallaway Slam (Finisher)1999, BradyGames, Secret Codes for Sega Dreamcast

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