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

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who thrashes.
2. 2
   large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed wordnet
3. 3
   Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
4. 4
   thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs wordnet
5. 5
   A thresher shark.

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6. 6
   a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw wordnet
7. 7
   A fan of thrash metal music. informal

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

alopius vulpinusfarm machineryfox sharkmachinerymagpiemocking thrush

Etymology

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

Related phrases

Cozumel thrasherbrown thrashercrissal thrashercurve-billed thrasherpearly-eyed thrashersage thrashernew worldthrash metalthresher shark

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