hazer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that hazes.
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a horse rider who assists in rodeo bulldogging by riding on the opposite side of the steer as the competing cowboy to keep the steer running in a straight path.
Etymology
Origin of hazer
Example Sentences
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I took a bleak sort of pride in making the house’s worst hazer laugh so hard he had to leave the room, but I couldn’t see my shucking and jiving for what it was.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2015
One Direction: Take Me Home – review Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans Extreme noise terror!
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 4.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
The steer starts from a tight chute between two horse pens, one for the bulldogger and the other for the "hazer," the rider who keeps the running steer close to the wrestler.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hope you understand that I have made this decision for your sake as well as for mine, for the psychological effect of hazing is quite as harmful to the hazer as to the hazed.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
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