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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who or that which rouses or excites to action.
  2. n. That which rouses attention or interest; something exciting or astonishing: as, the speech was a rouser; that's a rouser (an astonishing lie).
  3. n. Something to rouse with; specifically, in brewing, a stirrer in the hop-copper.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Something very exciting or great.
  2. n. One who rouses another from sleep.
  3. n. colloquial, archaic A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who, or that which, rouses.
  2. n. colloq. Something very exciting or great.
  3. n. (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who rouses others from sleep

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  • qroqqa But I could not, myself, seek solace in the notion that here was just a good old ten-twenty-thirty rouser.
    —Dorothy Parker, review of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 1931

    I have no idea what either of these words mean, and I'm refraining listing 'ten-twenty-thirty' as a newly-discovered word on the questionable grounds that it's not a word, but a syntactic combination linked by hyphens. Either way, I still don't know what any of it means.
    Nov 13, 2008

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