Crusher
name, noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
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."
- 2 a device that crushes something wordnet
- 3 A machine designed to crush rocks.
- 4 A policeman. dated, slang
"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?'"
- 5 Something overwhelming. obsolete, slang
"“She is a crusher, ain’t she now!” Mr. Foker asked of his companion."
- 1 A surname
Example
More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
From crush + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for one who elicits a crush, + -er (patient suffix).
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