crusher
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See also: Crusher
Etymology
From crush + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for one who elicits a crush, + -er (patient suffix).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹʌʃə/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
crusher (plural crushers)
- Someone or something that crushes.
- 1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, London: Trübner & Co., page 1:
- […] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.
- 1955 [609–632], “The Backbiter”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., The Koran Interpreted, →ISBN, page 664:
- Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer, who has gathered riches and counted them over thinking his riches have made him immortal! ¶ No indeed, he shall be thrust into the Crusher, and what shall teach thee what is the Crusher?
- A machine designed to crush rocks.
- (slang, dated) A policeman.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Literature of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 25:
- Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 110:
- Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left.
- (slang, obsolete) Something overwhelming.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- “She is a crusher, ain’t she now!” Mr. Foker asked of his companion.
Derived terms
Translations
someone or something that crushes
a machine designed to crush rocks
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