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# chaser

«chaser» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person or animal who chases someone or something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (chaser, chasers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person or animal who chases someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#m1)

2) A drink taken straight after another, especially a weaker drink after a strong alcoholic one, or a strong one after beer (adults). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#m2)

3) (sport) A horse that races over fences (steeplechaser), or a player in the Harry Potter game Quidditch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#m3)

4) Storm chaser: a person who follows storms to study or film them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In playground games like tag, the chaser tries to catch the others. In science, storm chasers follow tornadoes. In everyday adult life, a chaser is a drink. In stories, a dream chaser is someone who follows their dreams.

### examples

- In tag, the chaser has to catch everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#x1)
- The storm chasers filmed the tornado. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#x2)
- My grandad drank water as a chaser. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#x3)
- The chaser horse jumped every fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#x4)
- You be the chaser this time! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#x5)
- Ambulance chasers are lawyers who look for accident victims. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/#x6)

### note

From «chase» plus «-er» (a person who does). Countable.

### In the corpora

- [A Border collie called Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chaser» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaser/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.