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plural chargers
A device that charges or recharges. examples
One who charges. quotations examples
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
(historical, military) A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry (of a lighter build than a destrier). quotations
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
A large platter. quotations examples
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, […], Matthew 14:8
A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate. examples
(firearms) A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine. examples
(prison) A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools. quotations examples
"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
Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”) quotations examples
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