EGAVE

basher

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Meaning

  1. noun One who bashes something, figuratively or literally. Before the days of pneumatic rivet guns, the member of a riveting team who hammered the rivet to upset the bucktail to form the field head (see rivet).
  2. noun Before the days of pneumatic rivet guns, the member of a riveting team who hammered the rivet to upset the bucktail to form the field head (see rivet).
  3. noun One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
    a Paki-basher
  4. noun A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.
  5. noun A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
  6. noun A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.
  7. noun A kind of small floodlight.

Similar words

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