Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A claimant; one who demands something as his due.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who claims; a claimant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who makes a claim; a claimant
  • noun A pretender to a royal title

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to claim + -er.

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Examples

  • If you're not man enough to keep the "claimer" from getting your bird ...... you don't deserve said bird.

    "Claimers" 2009

  • I suspect if the economy gets any worse "claimer" situations could get downright ugly if not dangerous.

    "Claimers" 2009

  • They had a little disclaimer, well not a disclaimer, I guess you would say "claimer" where they explained that DuBois almost made it, but he kept insisting on talking about real [sh --].

    unknown title 2009

  • I offered that we organize a small group of guys and each throw in $1000 a man and go get a hard-knocking claimer and run it in the fall meet at FG, our way of doing something we are all interested in.

    Liz O'Connell: Last Mango Racing, These Saints Go Running Liz O'Connell 2012

  • Alan was a first-rate kisser, right up there with Jeff Moser, my date to the senior formal and claimer of my virginity.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Alan was a first-rate kisser, right up there with Jeff Moser, my date to the senior formal and claimer of my virginity.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Alan was a first-rate kisser, right up there with Jeff Moser, my date to the senior formal and claimer of my virginity.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • I offered that we organize a small group of guys and each throw in $1000 a man and go get a hard-knocking claimer and run it in the fall meet at FG, our way of doing something we are all interested in.

    Liz O'Connell: Last Mango Racing, These Saints Go Running Liz O'Connell 2012

  • Alan was a first-rate kisser, right up there with Jeff Moser, my date to the senior formal and claimer of my virginity.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Alan was a first-rate kisser, right up there with Jeff Moser, my date to the senior formal and claimer of my virginity.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

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