Definitions for rusher

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rusher rush·er

Spelling: [ruhsh-er]

IPA: /ˈrʌʃ ər/

Rusher is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in rusher (ehrrsu).

Definitions for rusher

noun

1. a person or thing that rushes.
2. Football. a player whose assignment is to rush or whose special skill is rushing.
3. the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
4. a hostile attack.
5. an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region that is being occupied or exploited, especially because of a new mine:
6. a sudden appearance or access:
7. hurried activity; busy haste:
8. a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs:
9. press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste.
10. Football. an attempt to carry or instance of carrying the ball across the line of scrimmage. an act or instance of rushing the offensive back in possession of the ball.
11. a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges.
12. rushes, Movies. daily (def 4).
13. Informal. a series of lavish attentions paid a woman by a suitor:
14. the rushing by a fraternity or sorority.
15. Also called flash. Slang. the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced upon taking a narcotic or stimulant drug.

adjective

1. requiring or done in haste:
2. characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc.:
3. characterized by the rushing of potential new members by a sorority or fraternity:

verb (used with object)

1. to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence:
2. to carry or convey with haste:
3. to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry:
4. to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste:
5. to attack suddenly and violently; charge.
6. to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.).
7. Informal. to heap attentions on; court intensively; woo:
8. to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership.
9. Football. to carry (the ball) forward across the line of scrimmage. to carry the ball (a distance) forward from the line of scrimmage: (of a defensive team member) to attempt to force a way quickly into the backfield in pursuit of (the back in possession of the ball).

verb (used without object)

1. to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
2. to dash, especially to dash forward for an attack or onslaught.
3. to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly:
4. Football. to carry the ball on a running play or plays.

Origin of rusher

1645-55; 1875-80 for def 2; rush¹ + -er¹

Examples for rusher

Suffice it to state that presently a rusher is obliged to retire from the field by reason of a sprained ankle.

She has ideas,” said Jean, gravely; “she is a rusher into new things.

Epworth had just enough energy to lift his foot and kick the rusher in the stomach.

He was a rusher and ran trains close, but he was ever watchful and wide awake.

But Frisk makes a strong case that rusher was not a mere populist propagandist.

By a line half-back is meant that one who, upon his opponents' plays, comes up into the line and performs the duties of a rusher.

Hermes is likewise the wind, and means the rusher (, and cf. Srameyas of the Vedas).

The rusher may play golf, but it will be a long time before he gets to the soul of the game.

rusher couldn't stand it to let another horse pass him on the road.

Designed by Cruikshank, and engraved by Branstone; published by rusher about 1814.