Meaning

4 senses

  1. One who thrashes.

  2. Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.

  3. A thresher shark.

  4. (informal)A fan of thrash metal music.

More definitions
  • a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
  • thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
  • large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

Origin

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

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Forms

plural: thrashers
Singularthrasher
Pluralthrashers

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw:thresherthreshing machine
  • thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs:mocking thrush
  • large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed:thresherthresher sharkfox sharkAlopius vulpinus

Word family

6 related words
Relatedthrash
Derivedbrown thrashercrissal thrashercurve-billed thrasherpearly-eyed thrashersage thrasher

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
thrallthrashthreadB2threadbarethreatB1

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