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splashers

splashers is the plural of splasher.

Meaning of splasher

Noun

splasher (plural splashers)

  1. Someone who splashes.
    • They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.1915, Nell Speed, Molly Brown's Orchard Home
  2. (dated) A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
    • No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350
    Synonyms:
    splashguard
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A knife used as a weapon.
    • Juice man up with this 15 inch
      Like, now I got blood on my splasher2020 August 13, Blacz, “TwentyTwo”, 1:21–1:26
    Synonyms:
    jooka, jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete

Questions about splashers

What is splashers the plural of?
Splashers is the plural of splasher.

Words near splashers in the dictionary

  1. splashed about
  2. splashed around
  3. splashed down
  4. splashed out
  5. splasher
  6. splashers
  7. splashes
  8. splashes about
  9. splashes around
  10. splashes down
  11. splashes out

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