busher

[ boosh-er ]
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nounBaseball Slang.

Origin of busher

1
1910–15, Americanism;bush1 (league1) + -er1

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How to use busher in a sentence

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

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

    Baseball Joe on the Giants | Lester Chadwick
  • He can take a busher and develop him into a star quicker than any man I ever saw outside of McRae.

    Baseball Joe on the Giants | Lester Chadwick
  • 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.

    Baseball Joe on the Giants | Lester Chadwick
  • A busher broke into the League with the Giants one fall and was batting against Pittsburg.

    Pitching in a Pinch | Christy Mathewson