busher
9.3
A person who plays in small or amateur leagues, especially baseball
- noun
- /ˈbʌʃər/
- Archaic
:
jugador de ligas menores
- During the summer, he played as a busher on the neighborhood baseball team, hoping to catch the attention of professional scouts.
Examples
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He wondered what it was like to be that old and to have known "King" Clancy, Charlie Conacher, and Harvey "Busher" Jackson.
Fiction book (1994) -
-These bushers make peanuts.
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Many young athletes aspire to become a busher in local baseball leagues before moving on to higher levels.
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The scouting report highlighted the talent of the busher, who impressed everyone with his skill at the amateur tournament.
Synonyms
5
4.8
A baseball player who plays for a professional team below the top level
is broader, including amateur players not part of the major leagues
9.7
A baseball player on a minor league team
is used more broadly for lower-level or amateur players beyond organized teams
Antonyms
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Busher in sport comes from the idea of the bush league, meaning small, local or amateur teams, with -er added to mean 'a player from there'. So a busher is a player in a lower-level or 'minor' league.