thrasher

1. One who thrashes.
2. Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
3. A thresher shark.
4. (informal) A fan of thrash metal music.

Etymology

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

Synonyms

thresher

fox shark

thresher shark

Alopius vulpinus

mockingbird

mocking thrush

threshing machine

thintail thresher

whip-tailed shark

beater

thrashing machine

catbird

flogger

big-eye thresher

brown-backed mockingbird

common thresher

grayfish

Translations

Toxostoma

batteuse

αλωνιστής

chi batte

Drescher

trebbiatrice

Alopias vulpinus

Mimus dorsalis

dorser

młocarnia

młocarka

młockarnia

trillador

trilladora

harman döven kimse