charger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːdʒə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chargers
Etymology: From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.
text: GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
ref: 2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13:
glosses: A device that charges or recharges.
examples: text: With the first volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened. Another volley brought down a half dozen more.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135:
text: That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.
ref: 2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred:
glosses: One who charges.
examples: text: The knight rode a white charger.
text: My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry (of a lighter build than a destrier).
examples: text: And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 14:8:
glosses: A large platter.
examples: text: The fancy restaurant used a white porcelain charger when serving.
glosses: A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
examples: text: "See this? This is a charger. It's used by convicts to hide money and drugs. They stick it in their body, they tuck it up their rectum."
ref: 2004, Brian Helgeland, 01:44:10 from the start, in Man on Fire:
qualifier: prison
glosses: A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
examples: text: Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.
ref: 1980, Bill Gulley, Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover, page 161:
glosses: Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”).
synonyms: word: hard charger
extra: person with a good work ethic
Derived terms: battery charger
chargerless
power charger
supercharger
twincharger
wall charger