ˈtrasher
[f. trash v.3 + -er.]
1. A person who trashes sugar-cane: see trash v.3
| 1903 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 6/7 The fierce rays of the torrid sun pouring down on the perspiring trashers of the cane. |
2. A vandal or wrecker. Cf. trash v.3 3 a. colloq.
| 1970 Guardian 19 Sept. 9/5 The trasher mixes with the non-violent student. 1975 Time (Canada ed.) 9 June 8/2 ‘As a lifelong Tory and ranking member of the legal establishment,’ reports Time Canada's Toronto Bureau Chief Robert Lewis, ‘Maloney also is not about to pursue his office like a trasher.’ |