chaser

1. 1.

   a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

   “always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers”

   Synonymspursuer

   Broaderfollower

   Narrowerbounty hunter
2. 2.

   a drink to follow immediately after another drink

   Broaderdrink

Other forms of chaser

plural

chasers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chaser

What does chaser mean?

chaser means "a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chaser?

chaser has 2 syllables: cha-ser. The stress falls on "cha". In IPA it is /ˈtʃeɪsɚ/.

What is another word for chaser?

Close synonyms include pursuer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chaser a common word?

chaser is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.