chaser
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- 1Someone or something that runs after another, trying to catch it.
In this game, the chaser has to tag someone before the music stops.
The rabbit got away because its chaser, a fat old dog, got tired.
Similarpursuer
- 2A different drink you have right after another one, like a beer after a shot of strong alcohol.
She ordered a shot of tequila with a beer chaser.
He drank the whiskey fast and reached for a glass of water as a chaser.
UsageSay a shot with a beer chaser.
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- 3A racehorse trained to jump fences in steeplechase races.
He rode his first winning chaser when he was nineteen.
The trainer has a stable full of chasers and only two horses for flat races.
Similarsteeplechaser, jumper
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- 4Someone attracted to sex partners with one particular feature, who seeks them out, often as a fetish.
She deleted the dating app after another chaser messaged her only about her wheelchair.
She soon learned he was a chubby chaser who only dated larger women.
UsageIt is usually unkind. Chubby chaser is one common example.
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- 5A gun at the front or back of a ship, used to fire at another ship during a chase.
The captain ordered the bow chaser to fire at the fleeing ship.
The pirates kept their distance, afraid of the warship's stern chasers.
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Less common meanings
- 6One of a row of lights that turn on and off one after another, so the light seems to run along.
The diner sign had chaser lights that ran around the edge.
Chaser lights blinked one after another around the stage door.
UsagePeople usually say chaser lights.
- 7A worker who decorates metal by cutting or pressing patterns into it.
The silversmith handed the teapot to a chaser, who added a pattern of leaves.
A skilled chaser can spend weeks on one silver bowl.
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- 8A tool with several teeth that cuts the threads of screws and bolts, or cleans and fixes damaged threads.
He ran a chaser down the rusty bolt so the nut would turn again.
The mechanic keeps a set of thread chasers in his toolbox.
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- 9A horse that is raised and trained for hunting.
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- 10Music played at the end of a show while people leave.
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.
1969, Robert Dean Klassen, The Tent-repertoire Theatre: A Rural American InstitutionHere, chaser means music played after a show while the audience leaves.Note
- 11In the Harry Potter game Quidditch, a player who passes the ball and tries to score goals.
- 12A guard who watches military prisoners while they work, or any prison guard.
- 13A person who looks for sexual partners with HIV because they want to catch the virus.
- 14A dragonfly that belongs to the family called Libellulidae.
- 15In logging, a worker who watches logs being pulled in and unhooks the cables from them.
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Origins
From Old French, from chacier, meaning "to chase, hunt".
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts
- Chaser derives from Old French, ultimately from chacier. en.wiktionary.org
- Old French chacier means “to chase, hunt”. en.wiktionary.org
From chase, meaning to groove or decorate metal, and -er.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts
- Chaser derives from chase plus the suffix -er. en.wiktionary.org
- Chase means to groove or decorate metal. en.wiktionary.org