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Definitions for Rusher

[1] a person or thing that rushes.
[2] Football . a player whose assignment is to rush or whose special skill is rushing.
[3] to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
[4] to dash, especially to dash forward for an attack or onslaught.
[5] to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly: The blood rushed to his face.
[6] Football . to carry the ball on a running play or plays.
[7] to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence: They rushed the work to make the deadline.
[8] to carry or convey with haste: to rush an injured person to the hospital.
[9] to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry: He rushed his roommate to get to the party on time.
[10] to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste: to rush a bill through Congress.
[11] to attack suddenly and violently; charge.
[12] to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.).
[13] Informal . to heap attentions on; court intensively; woo: to rush an attractive newcomer.
[14] to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership.
[15] Football . to carry (the ball) forward across the line of scrimmage. to carry the ball (a distance) forward from the line of scrimmage: The home team rushed 145 yards. (of a defensive team member) to attempt to force a way quickly into the backfield in pursuit of (the back in possession of the ball).
[16] the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
[17] a hostile attack.
[18] an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region that is being occupied or exploited, especially because of a new mine: the gold rush to California.
[19] a sudden appearance or access: a rush of tears.
[20] hurried activity; busy haste: the rush of city life.
[21] a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs: to be in a rush.
[22] press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste.
[23] Football . an attempt to carry or instance of carrying the ball across the line of scrimmage. an act or instance of rushing the offensive back in possession of the ball.
[24] a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges.
[25] rushes, Movies . daily(def 4) .
[26] Informal . a series of lavish attentions paid a woman by a suitor: He gave her a big rush.
[27] the rushing by a fraternity or sorority.
[28] Also called flash. Slang . the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced upon taking a narcotic or stimulant drug.
[29] requiring or done in haste: a rush order; rush work.
[30] characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc.: The cafeteria's rush period was from noon to two in the afternoon.
[31] characterized by the rushing of potential new members by a sorority or fraternity: rush week on the university campus.
[32] to hurry or cause to hurry; hasten
[33] to make a sudden attack upon (a fortress, position, person, etc)
[34] (when intr , often foll by at, in or into ) to proceed or approach in a reckless manner
[35] rush one's fences to proceed with precipitate haste
[36] (intr) to come, flow, swell, etc, quickly or suddenly tears rushed to her eyes
[37] slang to cheat, esp by grossly overcharging
[38] (tr) US and Canadian to make a concerted effort to secure the agreement, participation, etc, of (a person)
[39] (intr) American football to gain ground by running forwards with the ball
[40] the act or condition of rushing
[41] a sudden surge towards someone or something a gold rush
[42] a sudden surge of sensation, esp produced by a drug
[43] a sudden demand
[44] requiring speed or urgency a rush job
[45] characterized by much movement, business, etc a rush period
[46] any annual or perennial plant of the genus Juncus , growing in wet places and typically having grasslike cylindrical leaves and small green or brown flowers: family Juncaceae Many species are used to make baskets
[47] any of various similar or related plants, such as the woodrush, scouring rush, and spike-rush
[48] something valueless; a trifle; straw not worth a rush
[49] short for rush light

Words nearby Rusher

rush hour, rush light, rushdie, rushdie, salman, rushee, rusher, rushes, rushing, rushmore, rushwork, rushy

Origin of Rusher

11325–75; (v.) Middle English ruschen < Anglo-French russher, russer, Old French re(h)usser, re(h)user, ruser < Late Latin recūsāre, to push back, Latin: to refuse. See recuse, ruse; (noun) Middle English rus(s)che, derivative of the v.

Other words from Rusher

rush·ing·ly , adverb
un·rushed , adjective

Word origin for Rusher

Old English risce, rysce ; related to Middle Dutch risch , Norwegian rusk , Old Slavonic rozga twig, rod