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sər noun
1.
a person or thing that chases or pursues.
2.
a drink of a milder beverage taken after a drink of liquor.
3.
Also called chase gun. (on a vessel) a gun especially for use when in chase or when being chased.
4.
a hunter.
5.
Theater.
a.
Chiefly British. the final act or musical number of a vaudeville or variety show.
b.
the music played as the audience leaves a theater.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that chases |
| 2. | a drink drunk after another of a different kind, as beer after spirits |
| 3. | a cannon on a vessel situated either at the bow (bow chaser) or the stern (stern chaser) and used during pursuit by or of another vessel |
| chaser2 (ˈtʃeɪsə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person who engraves |
| 2. | a lathe cutting tool for accurately finishing a screw thread, having a cutting edge consisting of several repetitions of the thread form |
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Word Origin & History
chaser
c.1300, "horse trained for chasing," agent noun from chase. Meaning "water or mild beverage taken after a strong drink" is 1897, U.S. colloquial. Fr. had chasse (from chasser "to chase") "a drink of liquor taken (or said to be taken) to kill the aftertaste of coffee or tobacco,"
used in Eng. from c.1800.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
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