English Dictionary

chaser

/ˈtʃeɪsə/

noun

A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases. / (archaic) A hunter. / A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.

The chaser sailed across the ocean.

意味（1）

A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.

One student is the chaser and the other is the chasee. Give the chasee three seconds to get away and then allow the chaser to attempt to tag the chasee.

意味（2）

(archaic) A hunter.

意味（3）

A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.

[I]t looked like The Fellow was the best steeplechaser in many years. He'd earned the best speed rating I'd ever given a chaser.

意味（4）

A drink drunk after another of a different kind.

Coordinate term: back

意味（5）

(logging, obsolete) Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled (also called a frogger).

...on one end known as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop. It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for thechaserorchoker setterto follow theturnto the landing as might have to be done if tongs are used

意味（6）

(logging) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.

The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line, the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree.

意味（7）

(slang, historical) A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.

After the final curtain the orchestra played a chaser which was music played while the audience members not remaining for the after-show concert left the theatre.

意味（8）

One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.

意味（9）

A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.

意味（10）

Synonym of prison chaser (“person who guards military prisoners”)

意味（11）

(slang) A tranny chaser.

These types despise TGentlemen and insist that any man who is interested in TGirls is automatically a troll, a chaser, or just a gay man in denial.

意味（12）

(slang) A chubby chaser.

意味（13）

(slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.

At any given time, there are often dozens of people actively posting online ads as “chasers” or “gifters” in San Francisco and elsewhere around the nation .. Though chasers and gifters are active around the world, many see San Francisco as a kind of mecca .. apps like Grindr and Recon, as well as the website Breeding.Zone, where gifters and chasers share advice and stories about their sexual experiences, make it relatively straightforward to meet people who want to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS — or to infect their partners.

意味（14）

In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.

意味（15）

Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.