English Dictionary

basher

/ˈbæʃɚ/

noun

One who bashes something, figuratively or literally. / (informal) One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people. / (UK, slang) A trainspotter.

The basher hit the piñata with all his strength.

意味（1）

One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.

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

意味（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.

意味（3）

(UK, slang) A trainspotter.

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.

意味（4）

(military, slang) A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.

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

意味（5）

(television, film) A kind of small floodlight.