presser

plural pressers

1. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as

   Visiting a traditional vineyard, we watched the grape pressers treading the grapes underfoot.

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   That's the name of the people who make the polystyrene compound used by pressers of records that don't warp.

   1977, Billboard, volume 89, number 46

2. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:
   1. A member of a press-gang, who forces (presses) others into service.

      2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast Overnight, North Shields was cordoned off by soldiers while the pressers descended in force, and left with a haul of more than two hundred and fifty men, including sailors, mechanics, and every kind of labourer.

   2. A person or device that removes wrinkles, usually from clothing.

      He saw the man who did the cleaning and pressing for the hotel, a man whom he had always seen before in the gloom of the pressing shop sweating over a steam presser.

      1950, Carl Jonas, Snowslide, page 142

      Synonyms: clothes press

   3. alternativemedicineAlternative spelling of pressor: synonym of vasopressor.

plural pressers

1. informalmediaA press release.
2. informalmediaA press conference or press briefing.

   A statement will be issued. We'll do a presser this aftern—

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 117

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   At the presser, [Scott] Morrison confirmed that the petrol tax of 22 cents a litre will go back to 44 cents after six months despite prices nudging $2 a litre again; […]

   2022 May 18, Paul Karp, “Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: newser, pressie

plural Pressers

1. A surname.