finisher

UK /ˈfɪnɪʃə/ US /ˈfɪnɪʃɚ/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

A person who finishes or completes something.

The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line.

He became the best finsher for Australia's T20I team.

2

A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.

3

The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

4

A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.

5

The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.

A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]

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