basher

See also: Basher

English

Etymology

bash +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæʃɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbæʃə/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)

Noun

basher (plural bashers)

1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
   • 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14:

     Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.

2. (informal) One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.

   He was beaten up by a queer-basher.

   a Paki-basher

3. (UK, slang) A trainspotter.
   • 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero

     Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

   • 2017, Ian Carter, British railway enthusiasm (page 102)

     Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.

4. (military, slang) A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
   • 2014, LA Clarke, Callsign Whiskey (page 24)

     Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.

   • 2018, John-Paul Jordan, Joys of War

     I was well used to sleeping out under the stars whatever the weather. I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.

5. (television, film) A kind of small floodlight.

Derived terms

• Bible basher
• gay basher
• hand-basher
• Koran basher
• pommie basher
• Pommie-basher
• Pommy-basher

 

Anagrams

• Absher, Baehrs, Behars, rehabs