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Diver

//ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

    "A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene."

  2. 2
    large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
  4. 4
    someone who dives (into water) wordnet
  5. 5
    loon (Gavia) Ireland, UK
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  1. 6
    someone who works underwater wordnet
  2. 7
    The New Zealand sand diver.
  3. 8
    The long-finned sand diver.
  4. 9
    A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952). London, dated
  5. 10
    pickpocket obsolete, slang
  6. 11
    A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Etymology

From dive + -er.

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