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flusher

flusher

1 3.0
A part that releases water to clean a toilet bowl
  • noun
  • /ˈflʌʃər/
translation icon : cisterna
  • To ensure the toilet flushes properly, you should always check if the flusher is working correctly.
  • automatic flusher
  • toilet flusher
  • urinal flusher

And that now seems a quaint, yeah idea because I don't know what period of Elvis you're in right now, but I think he's about to reach for the flusher or we've now gone past.

Examples

  • Or they have flushers in them, which you're going to see on this, this season of My Cat from Hell or things like that.

  • In my case, I was named after my paternal grandfather who made big money manufacturing porcelain toilet bowls and toilet accessories like flushers, tanks, and the apparatuses inside tanks.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Yeah, you gotta hold that flusher down, a lot longer than you think.

  • So you just assume that it's an auto flusher, right?

  • Jack installed a special flusher, and he learnt how to do that in about two days.

  • It was a double flusher.

  • I was just showing Marc the flusher thingie.

  • You've been sitting here with a four-flusher, Mary Beth.

  • It's a two-flusher.

  • And that now seems a quaint, yeah idea because I don't know what period of Elvis you're in right now, but I think he's about to reach for the flusher or we've now gone past.

Synonyms

rinser
vsflusher
3.5

A tool or person that uses water to wash away dirt

is made to release water specifically to clean a toilet bowl

Antonyms

38 4.1

Something that blocks a pipe or blood vessel and stops flow

Surface Forms

flusher singular
flushers plural

Morphology

flusher = flush (transparent) = flush + er

The word 'flusher' is clearly derived from 'flush' with the addition of the agentive suffix '-er', indicating a device that performs the action of flushing.

Etymology

Flusher comes from the verb flush meaning 'to flow' or 'to rush out' and the ending -er meaning 'one that does something'. So a flusher is the part that makes water rush into a toilet to clean it.