busher

[ boosh-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Baseball Slang.

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Origin of busher¹

1910–15, Americanism; bush ¹ ( league ¹ ) + -er ¹

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These mishaps must have got on Burketts nerves, for he squarely muffed Thompsons pop fly that any busher could have caught.

Then he was just a busher, a rookie, a nobody who had his reputation yet to win.

He can take a busher and develop him into a star quicker than any man I ever saw outside of McRae.

I was pitching in the big league when you were a busher and Ill be pitching in it yet when youre fired back to the minors.

A busher broke into the League with the Giants one fall and was batting against Pittsburg.

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