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Crusher

name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a device that crushes something wordnet
  3. 3
    A machine designed to crush rocks.
  4. 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. 5
    Something overwhelming. obsolete, slang

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

Etymology

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

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