What does "chaser" mean?
Something or someone who chases.
Chaser
/ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Something or someone who chases.
- Grammar: chaser is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: pursuer, act, afterpiece, aperitif.
- Useful contrasts: evader, fugitive, hunted.
- Usage evidence: He has a reputation for being a skirt chaser.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something or someone who 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."
- 2 Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
""Mr B., heraldic chaser, says there are several processes in making heraldy plates, sketching, engraving, embossing, chasing and burnishing." "H. & C., manufacturers of cloth and gilt buttons, say it requires some weeks to learn to chase the gilt buttons, which are done with small metal tools and a hammer. Chasers are paid by the piece, working ten hours a day, and some can earn $1 a day.""
- 3 a drink to follow immediately after another drink wordnet
- 4 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.""
- 5 A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
"In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread."
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- 6 a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture wordnet
- 7 A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting). obsolete
- 8 A chase gun.
"bow chaser; stern chaser"
- 9 A drink consumed after another of a different kind. slang
"beer chaser"
- 10 Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled obsolete
"...on one end known as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop. It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for the "chaser" or "choker setter" to follow the "turn" to the landing as might have to be done if tongs are used"
- 11 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.""
- 12 A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves. obsolete, slang
"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."
- 13 A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- 14 One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- 15 A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- 16 A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.; A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser. slang
"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."
- 17 A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.; A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser. slang
- 18 A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.; A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected. slang
"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."
- 19 In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it. Harry-Potter
- 20 Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
Example
"He has a reputation for being a skirt chaser."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chaser"?
Common synonyms include: pursuer, act, afterpiece, aperitif, back, bit.
How do you use "chaser" in a sentence?
He has a reputation for being a skirt chaser.
How do you pronounce "chaser"?
Pronounced /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.
Etymology 2
From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) + -er.