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busher

American  
[boosh-er] / ˈbʊʃ ər /

noun

Baseball Slang.
  1. bush leaguer.


Etymology

Origin of busher

1910–15, bush 1 ( league 1 ) + -er 1

Example Sentences

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The Cards, hoping to strengthen their pitching staff, brought up from their Houston farm a rawboned busher named Dizzy Dean.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a busher, he was already a clown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like all baseballers before and since Ring Lardner's busher, he learned the tired routine for killing time on the road, "the one bad thing about baseball," says he.

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Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher.

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In de bowle of de bloody busher: tis very fine wholesome.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)