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scorcher

[ skawr-cher ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that scorches.
  2. Informal. a very hot day:

    Tomorrow is supposed to be a scorcher.

  3. something caustic or severe:

    a scorcher of a critique.

  4. Informal. a person who drives extremely fast.
  5. Printing. a device for drying and forming flong into a curve before casting.


scorcher

/ ˈskɔːtʃə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that scorches
  2. something severe or caustic
  3. informal.
    a very hot day
  4. informal.
    something remarkable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of scorcher1

First recorded in 1835–45; scorch + -er 1
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Example Sentences

By on-demand, Ruiz means that the desalination plant can increase its output to take the edge off during the highest-demand days, like summer scorchers, or holidays like Christmas, when everyone is home and turning on the taps.

I’ve squeezed onto many a narrow Roman balcony to dine with friends, clinking wineglasses as the sun sets on another scorcher of a day.

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We’ll have to wait until January to know for sure where this year lands in the record books, but whether we break the record or not, it’s been a scorcher.

By that time the fellow I'd kicked had so far recovered as to sit up, and the look he gave us was a scorcher.

"Going to be another scorcher," decided the foreman, rising and surveying the skies critically.

Ambition to shine as a "scorcher" has seriously injured the health of many a good, strong rider.

Girdner lined out a scorcher to center in the eighth and Walters sent one to the same place in the final frame.

Sir´-i-us, α Canis Majoris, "the sparkling star or scorcher."

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