chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/
rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chasers
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: One student is the chaser and the other is the chasee. Give the chasee three seconds to get away and then allow the chaser to attempt to tag the chasee.
ref: 2007, David Oatman, Old Favorites, New Fun, page 32:
glosses: Something or someone who chases.
examples: text: "[I]t looked like The Fellow was the best steeplechaser in many years. He'd earned the best speed rating I'd ever given a chaser."
ref: 2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, page 351:
text: "Wild Risk...had his greatest successes as a steeplechaser rather than a flat racer... It is rare indeed that a 'chaser - even one as good as wild risk - makes a good flat sire."
ref: 2003, Avalyn Hunter, American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002, page 458:
text: Oh, that final furlong! It can be both agony and ecstasy. Anyone who doubts that should have seen the television close-up of Jim Lewis as his great chaser Best Mate came up the final hill at Cheltenham in 2004 to clich a hat-trick of Gold Cups. ... Best mate is the best steeplechaser we have seen for years and all being well will be at the Cheltenham Festival again in 2005 to try and make it four Gold Cups.
ref: 2004, Sports Ticket: Live the Action! by Sportsfile, page 179
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).
examples: text: beer chaser
text: straight, no chaser
text: Cowboys in high-heeled boots teeter along its sidewalks, or push the swinging doors aside for a shot or two—straight, no chaser.
ref: 1947, John Clarkson Jay, Skiing the Americas, page 115:
text: All this stuff is blocking us / I'm neat with no chaser / I'm all spirit, but I'm sinking
ref: 2019, “People's Faces”, in The Book of Traps and Lessons, performed by Kae Tempest:
coordinate_terms: back
glosses: A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
examples: text: ...on one end known as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop. It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for the "chaser" or "choker setter" to follow the "turn" to the landing as might have to be done if tongs are used
ref: 1900, unknown author, Pamphlets on Logging Equipment, page 22:
text: "A chaser follows the logs to the landing, often riding in a rigging sled hollowed out of a log, which is attached to the rear log. The chaser can signal to the road engineer at any point..."
ref: 1913, Ralph Clement Bryant, Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States, page 219:
text: "and the chaser is the fellow whose job it is to follow along after these logs to..."
ref: 1918, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce:
synonyms: frogger
qualifier: timber industry
glosses: Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled
examples: text: "The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line, the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."
ref: 1956, Stewart Hall Holbrook, Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumber-Jack, page 184:
text: A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree.
ref: 1975, Fred Moira Farrow, Nobody Here But Us: Pioneers of the North, page 170:
text: "When the turn arrives at the landing, the chaser directs the engineer where to drop the turn by hand signals. The chaser then unhooks the chokers, gets in the clear, and singlas to reel in the haulback line".
ref: 1985, John Kenneth Pearce, George Stenzel, Logging and Pulpwood Production, pages 242–243:
qualifier: timber industry
glosses: One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
examples: text: After the final curtain the orchestra played a "chaser" which was music played while the audience members not remaining for the after-show concert left the theatre.
ref: 1969, Robert Dean Klassen, The Tent-repertoire Theatre: A Rural American Institution, page 95:
text: Films had become a regular feature of the typical vaudeville program, ending most programs and occasionally serving as a “chaser” that encouraged audiences to leave the continuous programs rather than retain their seats to watch them a second time.
ref: 2009, Andre Gaudreault, American Cinema 1890-1909: Themes and Variations, page 113:
glosses: A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.
glosses: A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
glosses: One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
synonyms: prison chaser
glosses: A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
examples: text: These types despise TGentlemen and insist that any man who is interested in TGirls is automatically a troll, a chaser, or just a gay man in denial.
ref: 2016, Michael David Freel, Trans-Oriented: A Guide to Love and Relationships, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.
A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.
A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
examples: text: At any given time, there are often dozens of people actively posting online ads as “chasers” or “gifters” in San Francisco and elsewhere around the nation .. Though chasers and gifters are active around the world, many see San Francisco as a kind of mecca .. apps like Grindr and Recon, as well as the website Breeding.Zone, where gifters and chasers share advice and stories about their sexual experiences, make it relatively straightforward to meet people who want to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS — or to infect their partners.
ref: 2016, An Undercover Look Inside the World of HIV Bug Chasers and Gift Givers:
glosses: A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.
A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
synonyms: bug-chaser
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
Derived terms: ambulance chaser
booty chaser
bug-chaser
bug chaser
bumper chaser
chippy chaser
chippy-chaser
chook chaser
chubby chaser
cloud chaser
clout chaser
cyclone chaser
distillation chaser
granny chaser
hurricane chaser
jersey chaser
lilac chaser
nigger chaser
potato chaser
prison chaser
rice chaser
scarce chaser
skirt chaser
skirt-chaser
smokechaser
steeplechaser
storm-chaser
storm chaser
stormchaser
straight, no chaser
subchaser
submarine chaser
sun-chaser
tornado chaser
tranny chaser
typhoon chaser
widow chaser
woman chaser