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- Dictionarypoacher/ˈpəʊtʃə/
noun
- 1. a person who hunts or catches game or fish illegally.
- 2. a small spiny fish which has an armour of overlapping plates and lives chiefly in cooler coastal waters.
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POACHER definition: 1. someone who catches and kills animals illegally: 2. in football, a forward who scores a lot…. Learn more.
noun (2) 1. : a covered pan containing a plate with depressions or shallow cups in each of which an egg can be cooked over steam rising from boiling water in the bottom of the pan. 2. : a baking dish in which food (such as fish) can be poached.
noun. a person who illegally hunts game, fish, etc, on someone else's property. poacher turned gamekeeper. someone whose occupation or behaviour is the opposite of what it previously was, such as a burglar who now advises on home security.
(especially British English) a person who has changed from one situation or attitude to the opposite one, especially somebody who used to oppose people in authority but is now in a position of authority. See poacher in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: poacher.
A poacher is someone who breaks the law to hunt or fish. If you see someone hunting deer in a state park that's got "No Hunting" signs posted on trees, that person is a poacher. If you don't follow the rules and laws about hunting, but grab your shotgun and head into your neighbor's yard to shoot rabbits, you're in danger of being a poacher.
1. a person who illegally hunts game, fish, etc, on someone else's property. 2. poacher turned gamekeeper someone whose occupation or behaviour is the opposite of what it previously was, such as a burglar who now advises on home security.
noun. 1. a person who trespasses on private property, esp. to catch fish or game illegally. 2. Also called: sea-poacher. any of several slender, marine fishes of the family Agonidae, found chiefly in deeper waters of the North Pacific, having the body covered with bony plates. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
