busher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of busher
Example Sentences
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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
As a busher, he was already a clown.
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
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
In de bowle of de bloody busher: tis very fine wholesome.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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