charger

plural chargers

1. A device that charges or recharges.

   Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.

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   GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.

   2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13

2. One who charges.

   With the first volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened. Another volley brought down a half dozen more.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135

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   That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.

   2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred

3. historicalgovernmentA large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry.

   The knight rode a white charger.

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   Before the stranger could make any reply to this unexpected proposition, another horseman dashed the bushes asides, and leaped his charger into the pathway in front of his companion.

   1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea— […], →OCLC, page 43

   My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.

   1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

4. A large platter.

   And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 14:8

5. A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal.

   The fancy restaurant used a white porcelain charger when serving.

   Synonyms: service plate, underplate

6. engineeringA speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
7. prisonA rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.

   "See this? This is a charger. It's used by convicts to hide money and drugs. They stick it in their body, they tuck it up their rectum."

   2004, Brian Helgeland, 01:44:10 from the start, in Man on Fire

8. Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”).

   Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.

   1980, Bill Gulley, Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover, page 161

   Synonyms: hard charger

plural Chargers

1. hobbiesA member of the Los Angeles Chargers.