chaser
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/
The English word “chaser” has 18 meanings listed here.
noun
- Something or someone who chases.
- A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).
- A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled
- One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- A chaser of transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- A chaser of overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- 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.
- 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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