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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
basher

1882, agent noun from bash (v.).

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basher

n. 1 One who bashes something, figuratively or literally. 2 One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people. 3 (context UK slang English) A trainspotter.

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Basher

Basher may refer to:

Basher (nickname)

Basher is a nickname for:

  • Robert Bates (loyalist) (1948-1997), a member of the loyalist Shankill Butchers gang from Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Basher Hassan (born 1944), Kenyan retired cricketer Sheikh Basharat Hassan
  • Nick Lowe (born 1949), English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
  • Jack "Basher" Williams (1917-2000), Australian rules footballer

Usage examples of "basher".

The Basher was found dead on a garden seat not three months later, and in his own way he had played fair, for he had left her a comfortable annuity out of his admittedly vast estate.

The farm was in profit, the rents from the village brought in sufficient revenue to see to repairs, and his inheritance from the Basher had left him a wealthy man.

The daughter of a wealthy coal owner from County Durham, she brought the consolations of the Quaker faith to her enforced marriage with the Basher, and she needed them.

She set an oak bench against the south wall and flanked it with buddleias for the butterflies - and decades later, the Basher, who had fought her all the way, came there to die.

Quin, aghast, heard the words of Basher Somerville come out of his own mouth.

The hall at Bowmont, with its arbitrary collection of broadswords, incomprehensible tapestries and a weasel which the Basher had stuffed, but without success, was not a place in which anybody lingered.

Separated by three flights of stairs from his nurse, laid to rest each night under the pelt of a polar bear which the Basher had shot in Alaska, Quin had gone to bed in terror -yet even then he would not have changed his eyrie for the world.

He was a gentle soul and the Basher despised him from the bottom of his heart.

Jimmy hopped over the trickle of filth down the centre of the alley, nodded to the basher who stood just outside, polishing the brickwork with his shoulder, and pushed through the door.

The basher would find a reason to delay any citizen from entering the shop whenever a Mocker was inside.

After all, if a load of low-life bashers could stand to be in that place then so could he, by Ruthia.

His voice lacked the rough, commanding edge Limm had come to know as a boy in the Mockers, when Graves was first among the bashers.

If the bashers had simply walked away from this abandoned warehouse, it might easily have been days, or weeks, before anyone looked in here.

Caliban has faced on at least two occasions, once at the warehouse with the robot bashers, and once just now with the deputies in the tunnel.

Eleven of the most feared bashers, the enforcers among the Guild of Thieves, had been lured into a warehouse at the end of a semi-deserted dock.