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busher

American  
[boosh-er] / ˈbʊʃ ər /

noun

Baseball Slang.
  1. bush leaguer.


Etymology

Origin of busher

1910–15, bush 1 ( league 1 ) + -er 1

Example Sentences

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Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Boston, after a particularly bitter exchange with Durocher during one tight game, Stanky loosed his famed insult: "Durocher, you've been a busher all your life, and you'll always be a busher."

From Time Magazine Archive

Like all baseballers before and since Ring Lardner's busher, he learned the tired routine for killing time on the road, "the one bad thing about baseball," says he.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cards, hoping to strengthen their pitching staff, brought up from their Houston farm a rawboned busher named Dizzy Dean.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Devlin, some busher, taking Bresnahan’s place,” another answered.

From Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside by Mathewson, Christy

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