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basher noun- in trainspotting, an enthusiast who will travel for as far as is possible in the train behind a specific locomotive UK
- [T]here are scores of specialists–such as bashers. From Joseph [Porter]’s description these seemed to be malodorous, hard-drinking, obsessives, who travel as far as they can behind certain types of locomotive, preferably on the way to a beer festival. — Iain Aitch, A Fête Worse Than Death, p. 55, 2003
- a prize-fighter; a thug UK, 1937
- When there was a football game in town or a full moon Mort stuck a couple of bashers in the lolly pops [shops][.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 25, 2000
- a physical training instructor UK, 1943 Military.
- — John W. Mussell, The Token Book of Militarisms, p. 10, 1995
- a fast, reckless skier US
- — American Speech, p. 205, October 1963: “The language of skiers”
- in the television and film industries, a simple 500 watt flood light US
- — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 16, 1960
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