basher

noun

1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.

   “Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.”

2. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
3. (informal)One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.

   “a Paki-basher”

   “He was beaten up by a queer-basher.”

   “It's impossible to count how many harassers and bashers are growing discouraged at the sight of 12 or so queers in black and teal uniforms walking down the street in tight formation. The message is simple: queer folk are banding together and walking the streets in cities around the United States to protect their own.”

4. (UK, slang)A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.

   “There are bashers and bashers, of course. Most of them, like 'Bob', try to travel as far as possible behind a particular type of locomotive. 'Bob' likes Class 37 diesels.”

   “Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.”

   “Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.”

5. (slang)A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.

   “Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.”

   “I was well used to sleeping out under the stars whatever the weather. I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.”

6. (slang)A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.
7. A kind of small floodlight.

name

1. A surname from Arabic.