busher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of busher
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
Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Boston, after a particularly bitter exchange with Durocher during one tight game, Stanky loosed his famed insult: "Durocher, you've been a busher all your life, and you'll always be a busher."
From Time Magazine Archive
But being a "busher" in the bailiwick of the Eastern press giants has had its drawbacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
He figured we wouldn't expect a busher to try to steal at that stage—and we didn't.
From Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Fullerton, Hugh S.
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