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chaser.

Something or someone who chases.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/General-American
  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).

    obsolete
  4. A drink consumed after another of a different kind.

    slang
    beer chaser
    straight, no chaser
  5. Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled

    obsolete
  6. One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.

  7. A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.

    obsolete · slang
  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 person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner. A chaser of transgender people; a tranny chaser.

    slang
  12. A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner. A chaser of overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.

    slang
  13. A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner. A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.

    slang
  14. In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.

    Harry-Potter
  15. Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.

Where this word comes from

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.

noun/ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/General-American
  1. Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.

  2. 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.

  3. A chase gun.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree English chase 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 chaser From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) + -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.