Splasher
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who splashes.
"They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint."
- 2 protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. wordnet
- 3 A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc. dated
"No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher."
- 4 a protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud wordnet
- 5 A knife used as a weapon. Multicultural-London-English, slang
"Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher"
Example
More examples"They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint."
Etymology
From splash + -er.
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