scorcher
IPA: skˈɔrtʃɝ
noun
- (literally) One who, or that which, scorches.
- (colloquial) A very hot day.
- (soccer) A very good goal, notably made with a very hard shot.
- (colloquial) A caustic rebuke or criticism.
- (colloquial, dated) A bad person.
- (colloquial, dated) One who rides a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
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Examples of "scorcher" in Sentences
- Ecirtec manufactures a seed conditioner similar in construction to the CeCoCo 'scorcher'.
- Mary Magdalen either walked or rode a mule Aspasia was a "scorcher," but she couldn't "coast."
- If you are a "scorcher" and are out to pass everything you meet, the less weight you carry the better time you can make.
- However, the welcome is warm and the wine list is a scorcher, which is not surprising since owner Tim Luther's background is in wine importing.
- If PopSci is right, and Merriam Webster is incomplete, via the word chauffeur we can link together Ray LaHood, the Robber of the Rhine, speeding motorists, and 'scorcher' cyclists.
- To-day the automobile, which fears not hills, take invariably the Moulins road, and covers the distance between breakfast and dinner; that is, if the driver is a "scorcher;" and there are such in France.
- Now look Victorian bloke, you can say what you will about my "lack of mental control" but the fact is that this 'scorcher' and his Brompton took the Southwark Bridge KoM points from a guy on a Bianchi this morning.
- He also never failed to overtake any "scorcher," although many of these were professional riders who deliberately violated the law to see if they could not get away from him; for the wheelmen soon get to know the officers whose beats they cross.
- In particular, the reader pointed out this passage, which proves that the guy hunched over his aerobars on the recreational path , the person who races you on your commute, and the charity ride racer all share a common ancestor called the "scorcher:"
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