basher.
One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
Meaning & usage
One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
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).
One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
a Paki-basher
He was beaten up by a queer-basher.
A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.
A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.
A kind of small floodlight.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English bash Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English basher From bash + -er.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.