presser

noun

1. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as

   “Visiting a traditional vineyard, we watched the grape pressers treading the grapes underfoot.”

   “That's the name of the people who make the polystyrene compound used by pressers of records that don't warp.”

2. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:

   “2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast Overnight, North Shields was cordoned off by soldiers while the pressers descended in force, and left with a haul of more than two hundred and fifty men, including sailors, mechanics, and every kind of labourer.”

3. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:

   “He saw the man who did the cleaning and pressing for the hotel, a man whom he had always seen before in the gloom of the pressing shop sweating over a steam presser.”

4. (alt-of, alternative)A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:
5. (informal)A press release.
6. (informal)A press conference or press briefing.

   “At the presser, [Scott] Morrison confirmed that the petrol tax of 22 cents a litre will go back to 44 cents after six months despite prices nudging $2 a litre again; […]”

   “A statement will be issued. We'll do a presser this aftern—”

name

1. A surname.