Finisher

//ˈfɪnɪʃə// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who finishes or completes something.

    "The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line."

  2. 2
    an animal that wins in a contest of speed wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.
  4. 4
    a race car that finishes a race wordnet
  5. 5
    The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding. dated

    "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher."

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  1. 6
    a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process wordnet
  2. 7
    A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
  3. 8
    a painter who applies a finishing coat wordnet
  4. 9
    The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.

    "A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]"

  5. 10
    a racing driver who finishes a race wordnet
  6. 11
    A finishing move. informal

    "Tie Up Fallaway Slam (Finisher)"

  7. 12
    (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game wordnet
  8. 13
    A player who scores points for their team.

    "After suffering a broken leg in a challenge from Stoke's Ryan Shawcross in 2010, the goal allowed Ramsey to put a positive slant on this fixture and show how he is evolving into a composed finisher."

  9. 14
    A substitute player who plays at the end of the game.

    "[Eddie] Jones has used his bench as finishers and repeated last year’s ploy that helped overcome France when he brought on Ben Te’o for [George] Ford. [Dylan] Hartley and [Mike] Brown had already gone off, along with [Nathan] Hughes, whose replacement Sam Underhill was making an impact at the breakdown when he was sent to the sin-bin for a no-arms tackle on Barclay."

  10. 15
    A visible trim element.

    "Inside, the revised F-Type gets lightweight slimline seats and new chrome and aluminium trim finishers."

  11. 16
    Synonym of inker.

Etymology

From finish + -er.

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