mushers

mushers is the plural of musher.

Meaning of musher

musher (plural mushers)

One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
- It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty miles. For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers.1903 July, Jack London, “Who Has Won to Mastership”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110
Synonyms:

dog musher
One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.

musher (plural mushers)

(London, slang) Synonym of mush (“a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”).
- Nobody knew Old Joe. He was a "musher"—that is to say, he owned his own cab and mostly did night work. He gave no trouble to anybody, and came and went as a rule in the dark hours of the night.1927, Edgar Wallace, chapter XXXIV, in The Clever One [The Forger], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club, Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 287
Synonyms:

mush

musher (plural mushers)

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