Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who overruns.

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

  • noun One that overruns.

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

  • noun One who, or that which, overruns.

Etymologies

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overrun +‎ -er

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Examples

  • We’ll have to closely consider the time next week, however, as I don’t want to risk the potential last two weeks of promo time for having been slapped with an “overrunner” label.

    The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007

  • We’ll have to closely consider the time next week, however, as I don’t want to risk the potential last two weeks of promo time for having been slapped with an “overrunner” label.

    The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007

  • a hare, who never threw his tongue but where the scent was undoubtedly true; good at trailing, and sure in a highway; no babler, no overrunner; respected by the whole pack, who, whenever he opened, knew the game was at hand.

    Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730

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