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Definition: Meaning of, runner in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈrʌnə /

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runner runners
[countable]
  1. someone who runs for sport or pleasure [↪  jogger]
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  2. a horse that runs in a race
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  3. do a runner British English informal to leave somewhere quickly in order to avoid paying for something or having to meet someone
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  4. one of the two thin pieces of metal under a SLEDGE, or the single piece of metal under a SKATE
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  5. the bar of wood or metal that a drawer or curtain slides along
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  6. technical a stem on a plant that grows along the ground and then puts down roots to form a new plant
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  7. a long narrow piece of cloth or CARPET
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runner used in phrases

  • Blade Runner
    1. (1982) a US film by the DIRECTOR Ridley Scott, in which a policeman in Los Angeles in the year 2019 has to find and kill a group of intelligent machines that look exactly like people
  • Bow Street runner (noun)
    1. a member of the first police force in London, set up in 1748
  • English runner bean (noun)
    1. long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favourite in Britain
  • arms-runner (noun)
    1. a smuggler of guns
  • base runner (noun)
    1. or attempting to reach a base baseball a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base
  • blockade-runner (noun)
    1. a ship that runs through or around a naval blockade
  • blue runner (noun)
    1. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
  • drug runner (noun)
    1. someone who brings illegal drugs from one country to another
  • front-runner (noun)
    1. the person or thing that is most likely to succeed in a competition
  • long-distance runner (noun)
    1. especially in marathons someone who participates in long-distance races
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