basher

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 2

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

   • a Paki-basher
   • He was beaten up by a queer-basher.
3. 3

   A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.

   • There are bashers and bashers, of course. Most of them, like 'Bob', try to travel as far as possible behind a particular type of locomotive. 'Bob' likes Class 37 diesels.
   • 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.
   • Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.

   3. 6

      A kind of small floodlight.

   4. 7

      A surname from Arabic.

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