perishers

Noun

perisher (plural perishers)

1. (UK, informal) An annoying child, a brat.
   • Get off my lawn, you little perisher!
2. (rare) One who perishes.
   • The Perishers
     Various peoples have perished in the past - for instance, Neanderthal Man and, later, the Tasmanians. Others are in the process of perishing - the aboriginees of Australia, the Bushmen, the Ituri Pygmies and the Red Indians.1969, Arthur Theodore Culwick, Who Shall Inherit the Earth?, page 69
3. (Australia, UK, obsolete) An extreme act; a case of going all in.
   • 'So I've come down to Coltonslough, being, as I understand, the dullest hole upon the earth's crust, and I mean to go in a perisher.' A 'perisher' was his expression. 'And I mean to read like old boots; so you may let your servant light me a fire, ...'1865, Only a Clod, in Three Volumes, page 184

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