Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thruster

/ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English

Syllables: thruster
IPA: /ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.

noun

A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).

noun

A bow thruster or a stern thruster.

noun

A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.

noun

An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.

Example Sentences

"Nevertheless osteopaths are coming to regard themselves not so much as thrusters, or even as repositioners, of bones, but as releasers of the patient's own recuperative forces."
"The executive is a thruster with ideas to expand or improve the business and his superiors fail to react—for whatever reason—and do not give acceptable explanations."
"His hi-spec gear suggests that he's a corporate high-flyer and he's definitely a bit of a thruster, very much in control, taking care of business."

Etymology

From thrust + -er. The surfboard sense was coined (but never trademarked) by Simon Anderson, who created the design in 1980. The name was almost immediately applied generically to any surfboard with that fin design.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: thrust

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/

Inflected Forms

thrusters (plural)

Derived Forms

thrusterless

Phrases

azimuth thruster microwave resonant cavity thruster pusher-thruster

Synonyms

pusher

Rhymes With

cluster buster muster custer lustre luster duster adjuster bluster shuster kuster fluster

Questions

How do you pronounce thruster?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/.
What does thruster mean?: One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
Where does thruster come from?: From thrust + -er. The surfboard sense was coined (but never trademarked) by Simon Anderson, who created the design in 1980. The name was almost immediately applied generically to any surfboard with that fin design.

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