splasher

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noun

Someone who splashes.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounsplasher (plural splashers)

plural splashers

  1. Someone who splashes.

    They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.

    1915, Nell Speed, Molly Brown's Orchard Home
  2. datedA guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

    No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.

    1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350

    Synonyms: splashguard

  3. Multicultural London EnglishslangA knife used as a weapon.

    Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher

    2020 August 13, Blacz, “TwentyTwo”, 1:21–1:26

    Synonyms: jooka, jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

nounA knife used as a weapon.

More synonyms by meaning

nounprotective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc.

Broader
protective coveringprotective coverprotection

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

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MLA

“splasher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splasher. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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