name, noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Something very exciting or stimulating.
2. 2
   someone who rouses others from sleep wordnet
3. 3
   One who rouses another from sleep.
4. 4
   A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. archaic, colloquial
5. 5
   A roustabout. Australia

   "They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’"

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

agent provocateuragitatoragitproparousercatalystdemagogue

Example

More examples

"They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’"

Etymology

From rouse + -er.

Related phrases

rabble rouser

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