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chaser

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/

The English word “chaser” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Something or someone who chases.
  2. A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
  3. A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).
  4. A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
  5. Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled
  6. One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
  7. A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.
  8. A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
  9. One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
  10. A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
  11. A chaser of transgender people; a tranny chaser.
  12. A chaser of overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
  13. A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
  14. In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
  15. Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
  16. Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
  17. A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
  18. A chase gun.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

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