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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chaser
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ambulance chaser
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ambulance
▪ The bloodhounds and ambulance chasers poured in after that.
▪ We were the greedy ambulance chasers representing rancorous clients who clogged the court dockets.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A shot of tequila and a beer chaser, please.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again and again, he cuts from the chase to the chaser.
▪ And in the past couple of years, his storm chasers have been left with little to chase.
▪ Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar, drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser.
▪ He'd never had a name as a chaser and I couldn't imagine him picking a time like this to start.
▪ He also phoned a local weather scientist and experienced chaser, Greg Thompson, for advice.
▪ Ian Chivers was third at the top, leading five chasers up to the leaders.
▪ Winning trainer Simon Dow regards the winner as a chaser in the making.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaser

Chaser \Chas"er\, n.

  1. One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

  2. (Naut.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

Chaser

Chaser \Chas"er\, n.

  1. One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

  2. (Mech.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chaser

c.1300, "horse trained for chasing," agent noun from chase (v.), probably in some cases from Old French chaceor "huntsman, hunter." Meaning "water or mild beverage taken after a strong drink" is 1897, U.S. colloquial. French had chasse (from chasser "to chase") "a drink of liquor taken (or said to be taken) to kill the aftertaste of coffee or tobacco," used in English from c.1800.

Wiktionary
chaser

n. 1 A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases. (from 14th c.) 2 Originally, a horse used for hunting; now, a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser. (from 14th c.) 3 (context archaic English) A hunter. (from 15th c.) 4 Someone who chases metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing. (from 18th c.) 5 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. (from 19th c.) 6 A mild drink consumed immediately after a drink of hard liquor. (from 19th c.) 7 (context Israel English) A shot of hard liquor. 8 (context logging obsolete English) Someone that follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled - also called a frogger. 9 (context logging English) one who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing. 10 One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement. 11 (context nautical English) A chase gun.

WordNet
chaser
  1. n. a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers" [syn: pursuer]

  2. a drink to follow immediately after another drink

Wikipedia
Chaser

Chaser may refer to:

  • Chaser, a person who carries out the craft of repoussé and chasing
Chaser (video game)

Chaser is a first-person shooter action video game developed by Cauldron. The game is built on the CloakNT 3D engine. Unlike many contemporary science fiction first-person shooters like Halo: Combat Evolved, Pariah, WarPath, and Unreal Tournament 2004, Chaser's weapons fire modern day projectiles.

It was re-released on Steam and GOG.com in 2011.

Chaser (album)

Chaser is an album by guitarist Terje Rypdal with bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr and drummer Audun Kleive recorded in 1985 and released on the ECM label.

Chaser (dog)

Chaser is a Border Collie dog with the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. She can identify 1,022 toys by their name and retrieve them. She was taught by retired Wofford College professor and psychologist Dr. John W. Pilley, with the formal research published.

Chaser knows over a thousand names of items, more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball and tree, she has memorized the names of more than one thousand toys and can retrieve any of them on command. Based on that learning, she and her owner and trainer, retired psychologist Dr. John W. Pilley, have moved on to further impressive feats, demonstrating her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar and to learn new behaviors by imitation.

Usage examples of "chaser".

Villemin had ceased to trouble Bucephalas with his bow chasers, so all the noise had ceased.

Now Jack spoilt the beauty of the great cabin by causing Mr Gray to build the equivalent of a deep wing-transom, with the corresponding knees, massive enough to withstand the recoil of his brass ninepounders, so that by removing the stern windows as though to ship deadlights, together with some of the gingerbread-work from the gallery, he could use them as chasers, firing from a higher station than the more usual gunroom ports.

There will be two long culverins of twenty pounds for your chasers, twelve demiculverins for your waist-guns, and a brace of twelve-pounder demicannons for your quarterdeck.

It was a bare and unpeopled countryside on the border of Exmoor, so I bethought me that I could not employ my leisure better than by chasing the chasers.

Consequently, most broadside gunsthe lower-deck guns, certainlyare cannon, while the long-range, long-barreled, high-priced culverins are rarely seen mounted other than in bow and stern as chasers.

After a single broadside from each of their full batteries, the French wisely ceased use of the outranged guns, only essaying shots whenever the Revenge or the Krystal lay athwart bow or stern, where the longer-ranged chasers could be brought into play.

Just as he expected, the long-range scanners reported his chasers doing the same thing.

I left her to this uncozy decor and went outside again to where my chaser still patiently stood hitched to the railing.

I studied the skeleton display, picked out Brumby and Cunha, their squad leaders and section chasers.

There was a puff of white smoke from the bow chaser and a screaming shell struck and exploded, dismounting one of the six-pounders, the flying shards of iron casing killing or maiming every member of that gun crew and several caliver men besides.

Of course, when the lugger fled, Walid opened fire upon her, but she was very close to making good her escape when a chance lucky shot of the Fairley-made breechloading rifled chaser at extreme range took off her rudder and severely damaged her stern.

I figure with a Ship this slow we're more apt to be the chasee than the chaser.

It is a completely inappropriate setting for a high-speed automobile chase and offers limited opportunity for the chasees to elude the chaser.

Neck and neck they hurtled toward the Snitch -all the Chasers seemed to have forgotten what they were supposed to be doing as they hung in midair to watch.

No sound in this universal roar, and the smoke was swept instantly away, but it was clear that the seventy-four had opened up with her chasers, trained sharp forward from the bridle-ports in her bluff bows and that a lucky shot had struck right home, smashing his coffee-cup - a chance in a million.