Meaning

18 senses
  1. Something or someone who chases.

  2. A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.

  3. (slang)A drink consumed after another of a different kind.

    beer chaser

    straight, no chaser

    Begleitgetränk

    запи́вкаzapívka

    a drink to follow immediately after another drink

  4. One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.

  5. A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.

  6. One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.

  7. A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.

    a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

  8. A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.

    (slang)A chaser of transgender people; a tranny chaser.

  9. (slang)A chaser of overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.

  10. (slang)A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.

  11. (Harry Potter)In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.

  12. Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.

Examples

14 sentences
  1. I want to be a storm chaser.

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  2. Diego tried to lose his chasers.

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  3. Clout chasers will be blocked on sight.

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  4. He has a reputation for being a skirt chaser.

    ruОн известный бабник.

    deEr ist ein bekannter Schürzenjäger.

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  5. A lot of the most vicious transphobes are chasers.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases:
mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases:
mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor:
someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing:
tool used for cutting the threads of screws:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, c

Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

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