Definitions for busher

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busher bush·er

Spelling: [boo sh-er]

IPA: /ˈbʊʃ ər/

Busher is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in busher (behrsu).

Definitions for busher

noun

1. bush leaguer (def 1).
2. a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
3. a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
4. something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
5. Also called bush lot. Canadian. a small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
6. the tail of a fox; brush.
7. Geography. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
8. a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
9. a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
10. a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
11. any tavern sign.
12. Slang: Vulgar. pubic hair.
13. Archaic. a wineshop.

Idioms

1. beat around / about the bush, to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly:
2. beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide:
3. go bush, Australian. to flee or escape into the bush. Slang. to become wild.

adjective

1. bush-league.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.

Origin of busher

1910-15, Americanism; bush¹ (league¹) + -er¹

Examples for busher

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

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

Many a busher I have seen go back who has tried hard to make good and just could not, and I have felt sorry for him.

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

Early Baptists like busher and Richardson had finely denied its validity.

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

The busher continued with his air until Devlin tried another form of persuasion.

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.