chaser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
equestrianism
fiction
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
literature
media
natural-sciences
pets
publishing
sports
taxonomy
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.
Base: chase
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: chasers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone who chases.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
pos: noun
examples: "[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."
"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."
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.
gloss: A hunter (a horse bred and trained for use in hunting).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: beer chaser
straight, no chaser
Cowboys in high-heeled boots teeter along its sidewalks, or push the swinging doors aside for a shot or two—straight, no chaser.
All this stuff is blocking us / I'm neat with no chaser / I'm all spirit, but I'm sinking
gloss: Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ...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
"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..."
"and the chaser is the fellow whose job it is to follow along after these logs to..."
gloss: One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
pos: noun
examples: "The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line, the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."
A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree.
"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".
gloss: A piece of music played after a performance while the audience leaves.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person who is attracted to and seeks out sexual partners with a particular quality, usually in a fetishistic manner.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
pos: noun
tags: Harry-Potter
gloss: Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
pos: noun
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: преследва́ч
roman: presledváč
lang: Bulgarian
word: преследва́чка
roman: presledváčka
lang: Dutch
word: jager
lang: Dutch
word: jaagster
lang: Esperanto
word: pelanto
lang: Esperanto
word: pelantino
lang: Finnish
word: jahtaaja
lang: French
word: poursuivant
lang: French
word: poursuivante
lang: German
word: Jäger
lang: German
word: Jägerin
lang: German
word: Verfolger
lang: German
word: Verfolgerin
lang: Hungarian
word: üldöző
lang: Italian
word: inseguitore
lang: Italian
word: inseguitrice
lang: Italian
word: cacciatore
lang: Italian
word: cacciatrice
lang: Latin
word: secūtor
lang: Latin
word: sequūtor
lang: Latin
word: secūtrīx
lang: Latin
word: sequūtrīx
lang: Old English
word: ēhtere
lang: Portuguese
word: perseguidor
lang: Portuguese
word: perseguidora
lang: Romanian
word: urmăritor
lang: Romanian
word: urmăritoare
lang: Russian
word: пресле́дователь
roman: preslédovatelʹ
lang: Russian
word: пресле́довательница
roman: preslédovatelʹnica
lang: Spanish
word: perseguidor
lang: Spanish
word: perseguidora