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thrasher¹

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Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

noun thrashers

  1. One who thrashes.
  2. Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
  3. A thresher shark.
  4. informal A fan of thrash metal music.

Thrasher²

proper noun Thrashers

  1. A surname.

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@misc{thrasher_2026,
  title = {thrasher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thrasher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}