real dasher
- noun
- UK
- Everyone on the field noticed that she was a real dasher, outpacing her opponents with ease.
Examples
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The team relied on their real dasher to break through the defense and score goals.
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Lionel Messi is a real dasher on the field.
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As a real dasher, he quickly became the star player on his youth soccer team.
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They need a real dasher to win the championship.
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As a real dasher, he quickly became the star player on his youth soccer team.
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Everyone on the field noticed that she was a real dasher, outpacing her opponents with ease.
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The team relied on their real dasher to break through the defense and score goals.
Synonyms
19
4.1
A person, animal, or vehicle that moves very fast
16
1.9
A person who runs short races very fast
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6.3
A player who moves quickly and unpredictably to avoid defenders
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7.5
A tool for stirring or beating cream to make butter
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8.0
A person or animal that moves quickly in short bursts
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
real + dasher
The meaning is compositional: 'real' functions as an intensifier ('very') and 'dasher' can be parsed as an agentive form of 'dash' (to run quickly), yielding 'one who dashes' → 'a very fast/skillful person'. This agentive morphology plus the intensifier follows regular English word-formation patterns (and similar logic exists cross-linguistically), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun real dasher comes from the verb dash, which means 'to run very fast', so imagine a player making quick, powerful runs down the field past defenders. That's why a real dasher means 'a person, especially in soccer, who is very fast and skillful'.