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crusher

noun
/ˈkɹʌʃə/UK

Etymology

From crush + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for one who elicits a crush, + -er (patient suffix).

  1. derived from *kreustaną✻ — “to crush, grind, strike, smash”
  2. derived from *krustijan✻ — “to crush, squeeze, squash”
  3. derived from *crusciō✻ — “to crush”
  4. derived from croissir — “to crush”
  5. derived from cruschen — “to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”
  6. suffixed as crusher — “crush + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that crushes.

    • […] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.
    • Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer, who has gathered riches and counted them over thinking his riches have made him immortal! ¶ No indeed, he shall be thrust into the Crusher, and what shall teach thee what is the Crusher?

  2. A machine designed to crush rocks.

  3. A policeman.

    • Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'
    • Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Something overwhelming.

      • “She is a crusher, ain’t she now!” Mr. Foker asked of his companion.

    2. A surname

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA