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basher¹

  • /ˈbæʃɚ/ US
  • /ˈbæʃə/ UK

Rhymes with -æʃə(ɹ)

noun bashers

  1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally. [S]ideshowmen rang bells and shouted themselves as near hoarse as is possible for sideshowmen as they exhorted the public to ‘see the fat lady’ or ‘stay two rounds with the basher to win a fiver.’
  2. 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. informal One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people. a Paki-basher
  4. UK, slang A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines. There are bashers and bashers, of course. Most of them, like 'Bob', try to travel as far as possible behind a particular type of locomotive. 'Bob' likes Class 37 diesels.
  5. slang A rainproof sheet for sleeping under. Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.
  6. slang A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.
  7. A kind of small floodlight.

Basher²

Where it comes from

Variant of Bashir.

proper noun Bashers

  1. A surname from Arabic.

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"basher." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/basher. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

basher. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/basher

Chicago

"basher." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/basher.

BibTeX
@misc{basher_2026,
  title = {basher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/basher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}