chaser n.1
1. that which accompanies and/or follows, usu. in the context of drinking.
(a) (orig. US, also chase) a glass of water, soda or beer taken after a shot of spirits, usu. to dilute the impact; from late 1980s onwards generally the other way around, a whisky chaser that is taken after drinking a pint of beer to increase the impact [1940s+ use is SE].
Tramp Poems 9: He landed one beneath his belt, just like a mornin’ bracer, / And then another followed suit, wo’t Lish Row’d call ‘a chaser’. | ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’||
Mr Dooley in Peace and War 178: You ask f’r a little liquor with beer f’r a chaser. | ||
More Ex-Tank Tales 9: He absent-mindedly looked around the table for a chaser, after tossing off his glass of vichy and milk. | ||
God’s Man 281: He’s drunk up the Hudson and took the East River for a chaser. | ||
Story Omnibus (1966) 321: She liked rye whiskey with milk for a chaser. | ‘$106,000 Blood Money’||
Flash! (Wash., DC) 17 Jan. 12/1: The following day he ate fifteen more hot dogs and drank five bottles of Pepsi-Cola for a chaser. | ||
Thieves’ Market 193: Give me a double shot of bourbon with a water chaser. | ||
letter 9 Dec. in Charters I (1995) 385: I’m buying 3 dozen oysters [...] frying them in butter, with imported Chianti for a chaser, & French bread. | ||
Playback 19: I take mine straight with a beer chaser. | ||
Exit 3 and Other Stories 112: How ’bout a fifth of my blood for a chaser? | ||
Jones Men 3: The bar-line [...] dispensing six different liquors with chaser. | ||
Traveller’s Tool 88: After enjoying large quantities of rich Japanese tucker with Sake chasers. | ||
Official and Doubtful 237: The gallons of Heavy and the whisky chasers. | ||
White Trash 260: Bob knocking back a chaser, laughing his head off. | ||
Rubdown [ebook] I ordered a double Jameson’s with a beer chaser. | ||
Disassembled Man [ebook] Everclear with a chase of whiskey. | ||
Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] I got loaded up on a triple_shot and at least half a dozen chasers. | ‘Dread Fellow Churls’ in||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 543: The Poet Bultitude [...] was belching at the bar with a guest ale, a chaser or two, pork scratchings, fucking artisan pork scratchings no less. |
(b) similarly used of foods.
Sun (NY) 9 Sept. 3/3: It’s floating island with cocoanut cake for a chaser. | ||
Gentle Grafter (1915) 202: I’d want ham and eggs, or rabbit stew, anyhow, for a chaser. | ‘Hostages to Momus’ in||
Trails Plowed Under 129: A tin plate loaded with stew and bannocks, with hot tea for a chaser. | ||
Babe is Wise 352: He [...] swallowed a couple of raw eggs with a ‘chaser’ of bread. |
(c) a final touch, e.g. in clothes.
Down the Line 81: For a chaser she wore one of those feather boas. |
(d) in fig. use.
Beat It 75: The automobile is the rich man’s wine and the poor man’s chaser. | ||
Trimmed Lamp (1916) 169: Eagerly gulping down the strong black headlines to be followed as a chaser by the milder details of the smaller type [DA]. |
(e) (drugs) a dilutant.
Fort Apache, The Bronx 313: He took a spoonful of pure heroin and dropped it in an envelope. Straight with no chaser. |
2. a follower.
(a) one who runs errands.
Croker 60: One of ‘His Royal Highness’s’ chasers comes sprintin’ up to me. |
(b) (mainly US, also belt-chaser) a womanizer.
Yale Wit and Humor 49/2: (Chess tournament) If our accomplished chasers ain’t able to pinch that Harvard Queen without giving up one of our own ladies in exchange, we would respectfully ask what the university is coming to? [OED]. | ||
Okolona Messenger (MS) 22 Oct. 3/1: College slang [...] The ‘belt chaser’ walks with a ‘bird’ to the ‘birdcage (a dormitory for women students). | ||
Christian Work & Evangelist, 73 223/2: n going from church he may become a ‘belt chaser,’ walking with a ‘coed,’ and going to his dinner he has a ‘berry’ (a good thing). | ||
Show Girl and Her Friends 14: Boozers and chasers do not write. | ||
Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 97: Do I have to let a lop-eared chicken-chaser like this run me all over town and get away with it? | ‘If a Party Meet a Party’ in||
Hollywood Girl 235: Teddy’s got an international reputation as a chaser. | ||
Appointment in Samarra (1935) 26: Al never heard anything about English and other women — and if English had been a chaser Al would have heard about it. | ||
Lady in the Lake (1952) 13: The man is nothing but a professional chaser. | ||
Mafia 125: Anthony Robert (‘Tony’) Gizzo [...] dresses expensively, likes to eat and drink well, loves night clubs and nightlife and is a woman chaser. | ||
Homosexual Society 82: He’s a stupid ignorant bully, alcoholic and woman-chaser to this day. | ||
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Gonif 166: He’s a chaser and a big man around town. | ||
London Fields 61: Now I’m no chaser, and I failed in love, but I’ve felt these powerful feminine auras. | ||
http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Chaser — From mainstream slang ‘skirt chaser’, an employee who would rather "come on" to pretty women than do his job. | ‘Carny Lingo’ in
(c) a promiscuous woman, the female equivalent of sense 2b.
Criminal (1993) 50: She was pretty much of a chaser. She’d take out after anything that wore pants. | ||
Bitten by the Tarantula (2005) 229: And then of course she’s a chaser [...] Anything in trousers. | ‘A House of Cards’ in
(d) (also queer-chaser) a promiscuous homosexual.
From Here to Eternity (1998) 470: Hell, if they threw all the queens and queer-chasers in Honolulu into jail, the city’d go broke tryin to feed them. | ||
Homosexual Society 76: When a bisexual youngster takes up with such a ‘chaser’, it is clear that he is often reluctant. |
(e) (US prison) a prison officer responsible for overseeing prisoners when out of prison, e.g. on a chain gang [the potential for escape].
Prison Sl. 96: Chaser Specific officer assigned to work crews, chain gangs and escape recovery teams. |
(f) a man who sexually pursues male-to-female transgender persons having male genitalia.
Trans 55: ‘[C]hasers’—men who desire (genitally intact) transwomen. This is a relatively common male sexual taste (as evident from the number of ‘shemales’ on Pornhub, and tourists visiting Thailand for the ‘ladyboys’. |