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splasher

noun

Etymology

From splash + -er.

Definitions

  1. Someone who splashes.

    • They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.

  2. A guard to keep off splashes from anything

    A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

    • No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.

  3. A knife used as a weapon.

    • Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher

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