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Rusher   /rˈəʃər/   Listen
Rusher

noun
1.
(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball.
2.
Someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory.
3.
A person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously.



Rush

adjective
1.
Not accepting reservations.  Synonym: first-come-first-serve.
2.
Done under pressure.  Synonym: rushed.



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"Rusher" Quotes from Famous Books



... say rusher and I'll prove mine office good; for look, sir, when any comes from under the sea or so, and a dog chance to blow his nose backward, then with a whip I give him the good time of the day, and straw rushes presently: therefore, I am a rusher, a ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... choosing; and why should not the busy, curious, thirsty fly have equal right of access with any other insect?—yet Mr. Mix contrived to hold himself up to the public as a live reformer, but not a radical, and to the League as a radical but not a rusher-in where angels fear to tread. It required the equilibrium of a tight-rope walker, but Mr. Mix had it. Indeed, he felt as pleased with himself as though he had invented it. And he observed, with ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall

... short arch. Blair was awaiting it, and Kingdon was behind and to the right of him. Down it came, out shot Blair's hands, and catching it like a baseball he was off at a jump, Kingdon beside him. Joel swung about, gave a shoulder to an oncoming blue-clad rusher, ran slowly until the two backs were hard behind him, ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... struggles. Suffice it to state that the scrimmages grow still more savage and earnest, and that a player from each side is obliged by the referee to retire from the field, because he has slugged an opponent. Suffice it to state that presently a rusher is obliged to retire from the field by reason of a sprained ankle. It is not little Fred, but might it not have been? Suffice it to state that by the end of the first three-quarters of an hour—let the uninitiated here learn that a match is divided into two bouts of that length each, with ...
— The Opinions of a Philosopher • Robert Grant

... rural perambulations, often put up for the night at our cottage, and as there was generally some fun going on in the neighborhood after dark, I led him into many frolics with the boys and girls; and I can assure you he was a rusher with the fair sex, capturing the plums that fell from the tree of ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce



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