pressers

Noun (1)

presser (plural pressers)

1. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as
   • Visiting a traditional vineyard, we watched the grape pressers treading the grapes underfoot.
2. A member of a press-gang, who forces (presses) others into service.
   • Overnight, North Shields was cordoned off by soldiers while the pressers descended in force, and left with a haul of more than two hundred and fifty men, including sailors, mechanics, and every kind of labourer.2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast
3. A person or device that removes wrinkles, usually from clothing.
   • He saw the man who did the cleaning and pressing for the hotel, a man whom he had always seen before in the gloom of the pressing shop sweating over a steam presser.1950, Carl Jonas, Snowslide, page 142

   Synonyms:

   clothes press

Noun (2)

presser (plural pressers)

1. (informal) A press release.
2. (informal) A press conference or press briefing.
   • At the presser, [Scott] Morrison confirmed that the petrol tax of 22 cents a litre will go back to 44 cents after six months despite prices nudging $2 a litre again; […]2022 May 18, Paul Karp, “Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms:

   newser, pressie

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