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scorcher
[ skawr-cher ]
noun
- a person or thing that scorches.
- Informal. a very hot day:
Tomorrow is supposed to be a scorcher.
- something caustic or severe:
a scorcher of a critique.
- Informal. a person who drives extremely fast.
- Printing. a device for drying and forming flong into a curve before casting.
scorcher
/ ˈskɔːtʃə /
noun
- a person or thing that scorches
- something severe or caustic
- informal.a very hot day
- informal.something remarkable
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.
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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