Crossword clues for scorcher
scorcher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
scorcher \scorch"er\ a very hot day. [Informal]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"very hot day," 1874, agent noun from scorch (v.). It also means or has meant "stinging attack" (1842), "pretty girl" (1881), "line drive in baseball" (1900).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) One who, or that which, scorches. 2 (context colloquial English) A very hot day. 3 (context football English) A very good goal, notably made with a very hard shot
WordNet
n. an extremely hot day
a very hard hit ball [syn: screamer]
Wikipedia
Scorcher was the name of a football-themed British comic magazine published by IPC between January 1970 and June 1971. In July 1971, it joined with another football-themed comic, Score, to form Scorcher and SCORE, before finally merging into Tiger to become TIGER and Scorcher. The word Scorcher started with almost equal prominence to TIGER on the title page, but as usually happens with such mergers the title size was reduced in November 1975, and again in February 1978 before finally being dropped from the title of the comic after the issue dated 30 August 1980. Scorcher featured various well-known comic strips, such as Billy's Boots, Bobby of the Blues and Lags Eleven, a story about a prison football team. In addition, the Nipper story was absorbed from Score comic and Hot Shot Hamish made its first appearance in the Scorcher and SCORE period. Some of these stories later found homes in Roy of the Rovers in addition to Tiger.
IPC Magazines, the publishers of Scorcher, always referred to it as a "paper" rather than a comic in its editorials, to distinguish it from more child oriented publications such as The Beano or The Dandy. In addition to its realistic and comedic football themed stories, it contained factual items about British professional football, and advertisements not only for contemporary toys, games and confectionery, but also others aimed at an older readership, such as for the Charles Atlas body building method, and recruitment advertisements for the Police, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
Scorcher is a fictional character in Marvel Comics.
Scorcher is a futuristic racing video game released by Danish developer Zyrinx in 1996 for the PC and the Sega Saturn. Originally announced under the name "Vertigo", the game focuses on special motorcycles that reach up to 450 km/h racing through dangerous tracks in a dystopian year 2021.
Scorcher may refer to:
- Scorcher (film), a 2002 science fiction disaster film
- Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change, a 2007 book by Clive Hamilton
- Scorcher (magazine), a football-themed British comic magazine
- Scorcher (video game), a futuristic racing video game by now-defunct developer Zyrinx
- Scorcher (comics), the name of a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Scorcher, a record label run by Jamaican deejay Errol Scorcher
- Georgia Scorcher, a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia
- HMS Scorcher (P258), a decommissioned S class submarine of the Royal Navy
- Scorcher, a fictional movie franchise referenced in the 2008 movie Tropic Thunder
- Scorcher (rapper), a grime artist from London, who has collaborated with Wiley, S.A.Q and Wretch 32
Tayo Jarrett (born 5 April 1986), better known as Scorcher, is an English grime artist and actor from Enfield, North London. He is currently a member of the grime collective The Movement and is signed to Blue Colla Music.
Scorcher is a 2002 science fiction disaster film directed by James Seale and starring Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Jeffrey Johnson, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston and Rutger Hauer. It was first released in the USA in 2002. It concerns a group of scientists who discover, after a disastrous nuclear accident, the Earth's tectonic plates are shifting and creating immense pressure that will destroy the earth in a fiery global eruption, and it is up to a few top scientists to find a way to stop it.
Usage examples of "scorcher".
Phyllis was lying at anchor about two miles off Cowes Harbour, and the Scorcher was lying with steam up some quarter of a mile inside her.
Tyrrell and Lieutenant-Commander Farquar were taking a very limited promenade on the narrow, rubber-covered decks of the Scorcher, they felt the boat heave jerkily under their feet.
The head-ray from the Scorcher shot down to the bottom of the Solent, wavered hither and thither for a few moments, and then remained fixed.
The Scorcher swung round to the eastward and began working in a zigzag course at quarter speed towards Spithead.
The engines of Le Vengeur stopped, and presently Tyrrell and Commander Farquar saw from the deck of the Scorcher a long, shining, hale-backed object rise above the surface of the water.
The moment that it came in sight the Scorcher stopped, and then moved gently towards Le Vengeur.
T-shirt, and a look in his eyes that still smoldered from some psychedelic scorcher that had made him swear off forever.
It was another scorcher of a day, and the cool air that flowed from the cave entrance was pleasantly enticing.
The day was bound to be a scorcher, 95-plus degrees even out here on the ocean, one of those days that used to be rare but in the past few years had become more and more common.
Captain Krausa paused while a Losian scorcher avoided the end of his nose.
But Sunday promised to be a scorcher, and the prospect of a long drive in an air-conditioned car was suddenly quite appealing.
Chapter 4 More than the heaviness of warm air told Luke that Wednesday would be a scorcher for this mountain.
Radio weather reports called for a real scorcher, even down in Vineland after the fog burned off.
Frenchmen and Englishmen, Gascon and Provencal, Brabanter, Tardvenu, Scorcher, Flayer, and Free Companion, wandered and struggled over the whole of this accursed district.
Tombstone was thirty miles from Bisbee by the most direct route, and the day promised to be another scorcher.