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finisher

  • /ˈfɪnɪʃə/ UK
  • /ˈfɪnɪʃɚ/ US

noun finishers

  1. A person who finishes or completes something. The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line.
  2. A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.
  3. dated The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
  4. A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
  5. The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow. A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]
  6. informal A finishing move. Tie Up Fallaway Slam (Finisher)
  7. A player who scores points for their team. After suffering a broken leg in a challenge from Stoke's Ryan Shawcross in 2010, the goal allowed Ramsey to put a positive slant on this fixture and show how he is evolving into a composed finisher.

    Similar: scorer

  8. A substitute player who plays at the end of the game. [Eddie] Jones has used his bench as finishers and repeated last year’s ploy that helped overcome France when he brought on Ben Te’o for [George] Ford. [Dylan] Hartley and [Mike] Brown had already gone off, along with [Nathan] Hughes, whose replacement Sam Underhill was making an impact at the breakd
  9. A visible trim element. Inside, the revised F-Type gets lightweight slimline seats and new chrome and aluminium trim finishers.
  10. Synonym of inker.

    Similar: inker

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: stitcher, oft, trim, accent, garnish, completer, perfecter, completionist, fulfiller, terminator, accomplisher, furtherer, settler, polisher, perficient, executant

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@misc{finisher_2026,
  title = {finisher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/finisher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}