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charger

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtʃɑːdʒə//
  • United States//ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ//

A device that charges or recharges.

noun

  1. 1

    A device that charges or recharges.

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

  2. 2

    One who charges.

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

    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.

  3. 3

    historicalA large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry.

    The knight rode a white charger.

    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.

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

  4. 4

    A large platter.

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

  5. 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.

  6. 6

    A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.

  7. 7

    A 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."

  8. 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.

Etymology

From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.

Forms

plural
chargers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).