Dasher
name, noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person who dashes; a fast runner.
- 2 An employee of DoorDash, a San Francisco–based company that operates an online food ordering and food delivery platform.
"DoorDash carries a commercial auto insurance policy that covers up to $1 million in bodily injury and/or property damage of its Dashers, who are considered third parties. Any accident that occurs while on an active delivery (in possession of goods to be delivered) qualifies the Dasher for coverage."
- 3 That which dashes or agitates.
"the dasher of a churn"
- 4 A dashboard or splashboard. US
- 5 The lower boards around the edge of the rink.
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- 6 One who makes an ostentatious parade or display. archaic, colloquial
- 1 A surname.
- 2 The first reindeer of Santa Claus.
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More examples"When Christmas Eve came he’d harness up his reindeers, Dasher, and Prancer, and Vixen, and the rest of them, and wrap himself up in furs, and light his big pipe, and cram his sled full of the doll-babies and Noah’s arks, and all the other toys he’d been making, and off he’d go with a great shout and tremendous ringing of sleigh-bells."
Etymology
From dash + -er.
* Americanized form of German Dascher. * Possibly a habitational name from Dasher near Kippen in Stirlingshire.
From dasher. * (reindeer): First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”.
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