trash-talker

noun

as in mocker

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Recent Examples of trash-talker Hoiberg’s adversary Thursday in Houston, Iowa’s Ben McCollum — in the first Sweet 16 ever for Nebraska and first in 27 years for Iowa — just sent it right back the other way to vicious trash-talker Todd Golden amid a shocker over Florida. — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trash-talker
  1. heckler
  2. tormentor
  3. harasser
  4. detractor
  5. torturer
  6. wiseacre
  7. persecutor
  8. tease
Noun
  • Glasper eventually offered the heckler a drink as a peace offering, but the impromptu music debate took up too much of the show’s 90-minute runtime.
    — William E. Ketchum III, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The crowd jeered and guffawed throughout the event and a heckler who stood up to yell at the stage was led out of the hall halfway through.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of heckler
Noun
  • Each nutty denunciation of his imaginary tormentors includes a plea for a presidential pardon.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • So her lighthearted moment with her former tormentor was noteworthy, and not lost on Negan.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 27 July 2026
Definition of tormentor
Noun
  • Parton’s ability to become the harasser without falling into some version of male drag makes this short sequence far superior to the many films with a similar premise that followed.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of harasser
Noun
  • And many Trump detractors have drawn parallels to Anthony Scaramucci’s infamous 11-day stint as White House communications director in 2017.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
  • There are a whole lot of reasons to have a whole lot of concerns about the harm artificial intelligence can cause, which explains why the technology has so many detractors.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of detractor
Noun
  • Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.
    — EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.
    — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Definition of torturer
Noun
  • The 40-year-old singer Ryan Davis, a cowboy wiseacre with a drum machine and the patience for 11-minute anthems, riffs merrily on such existential mysteries.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Similarly, the Pink Ladies, a popular clique headed by Rizzo (Stockard Channing), deliver their wiseacre lines with a fair dose of irony.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of wiseacre
Noun
  • Are prisoners in Nazi concentration camps not the legal owners of artworks they were forced to make by their SS persecutors?
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political headwinds and with nothing to gain and everything to lose, was par for her life, and a challenge for all of us to do the same.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of persecutor
Noun
  • The new trailer offers a brief tease of the instantly-iconic concert, in which Winter headlined Carnegie Hall for one night only at the age of 23.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The exhibition schedule and summer league tend to be seasons of tease.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of tease

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