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PERISHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perisher mean? 

PERISHER (noun)
  The noun PERISHER has 1 sense:

1. bounderplay

  Familiarity information: PERISHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PERISHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bounder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("perisher" is a kind of...):

blackguard; bounder; cad; dog; heel; hound (someone who is morally reprehensible)

Domain region:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)


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