rasher Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America
    vermillion rockfish; Sebastodes miniatus.
  2. adjective satellite imprudently incurring risk
    rash.
    • do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith
  3. adjective satellite marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
    foolhardy; rash; heady; reckless.
    • foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
    • became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay
    • a reckless driver
    • a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest

WordNet

Rash"er noun
Etymology
In sense 1, probably fr. rash, a., as being hastily cooked.
Definitions
  1. A thin slice of bacon.
  2. (Zoöl.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

Webster 1913