thrasher noun4 •Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak. •(informal) A fan of thrash metal music. •One who thrashes. •A thresher shark. formsthrashers