Crossword clues for husker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780, agent noun from husk (v.). Cornhuskers as a nickname for athletics squads from Nebraska is attested by 1903.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who husks (as one who removes the husks, leaves, from ears of corn). 2 (context US slang English) A fan or supporter of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the sports teams of the University of Nebraska.
Wikipedia
Husker may refer to:
- A Nebraska resident (current or former).
- A Nebraska Cornhusker, student of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; particularly as representing that institution in interscholastic activities .
- William Adama's callsign in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.
- Hüsker Dü, American hardcore punk/alternative rock band
Usage examples of "husker".
When they had finished, they fitted their power arms with grapples, pulled up the section of deck containing what was perhaps a dead Husker, and prepared to carry it off.
Whatever happened, it struck the Husker in some vital spot with something, its beak or one of those saw-blade appendages.
I had some little money set aside to buy an electric corn husker this autumn, but a soapy tit wank sounds like it would be better value.
Reginald Boulay was his name, and at this exact moment he was giving Dallas King the results of his Husker Poll.
The numbers from the Husker Poll were never found in the newspapers or on TV.
King had decided after talking to two of his regular pollsters, and being irritated at their inability to understand what he wanted, that if there was ever a time to spend money on Boulay and his Husker Poll, now was it.
According to the Husker Poll, a little over sixty percent of those surveyed felt that Vice President Baxter should exhaust almost all options in an effort to resolve the crisis in a peaceful way.
Occasionally an American tune would break through, by experimental groups like Husker Du, the Blow Monkeys, Fine Young Cannibals.
The Huskers seemed to see in the same spectrum as humans, so Gordon figured they should be able to follow what was going on.
The Huskers rustled their fronds, and the Gaspassers emitted noises that indicated that they were about to become airborne.
The Huskers were standing and shaking their fronds at the Gaspassers, who in unison emitted loud noises and rose into the air.
Probably the Lambchops telling the Huskers what to say to us humans, and you ordering the Gaspassers to this meeting.
Seated on the floor around the pile each of the huskers sought to make a narrow cut in the corn before him to reach the prize more quickly.