basher

1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.

2. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.

   Before the days of pneumatic rivet guns, the member of a riveting team who hammered the rivet to upset the bucktail to form the field head (see rivet).

3. (informal)One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.

   a Paki-basher

   He was beaten up by a queer-basher.

4. (UK, slang)A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.

5. (slang)A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.

6. (slang)A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.

7. A kind of small floodlight.

1. He had much more than brute force: he was a skilled and terrific basher.

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