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Poacher meaning
A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild. | A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water | An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
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My wife had a “The Poacher,” a modern bourbon-based cocktail with vermouth, maraschino liqueur, and bitters, and found it to be an excellent twist on the Manhattan.
Subsequent investigations found their son, Chris, had allegedly fired two of the three shots at the presumed poacher, but the entire family denied involvement in the shooting.
The Indigenous patrols had been successful at times, including leading authorities to a poacher with 650 pounds of illegal game and nearly 900 pounds of illegal fish.
As tips increased, a group of “highly trained investigators” formed the Poacher Strike Force “to aggressively stop poachers,” according to a Jan.
His mates in the SAS knew him as “the Poacher”.
Matheus Cunha had a starring role in the 2-2 draw with a magnificent solo goal and a poacher’s finish in what was always going to be a difficult game.
The Dinamo Tbilisi forward was on target with a poacher's finish for Georgia's under-19 side on Saturday afternoon, heading home an inch-perfect cross from the right as his country ran out 3-2 winners over Norway's youngsters.
The endeavour and strength Tshimanga showed to fashion his chance early on was excellent and showed that he is more than just a poacher.
And what I mean is he was a poacher.
He made a poacher’s run into the six-yard box to get on the end of Raheem Sterling’s low cross.
I don't want to live like that again," the reformed poacher says.
Khanysia was severely wounded by a man-made snare set by a poacher in the lower Kruger park.
Terry played a very significant role in Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea as well as compatriot Frank Lampard and then the goal poacher Didier Drogba.
Again it was a poacher’s finish from Willock, who this time tucked home at the back post after Nketiah had attempted to flick Jenkinson’s low cross into the box towards goal.
Disconcertingly, during his three-week recuperation, he learned that one of the hunters—the teenage son of the former ranger-turned-poacher—was in the next room, recovering from a shattered knee sustained during the gunfight.
Weaponless, the vessel’s crew, including intrepid drone pilot Jack Hutton, sends the coordinates of any successfully tracked poacher’s ship to the Mexican navy, in the desperate hopes that the military will actually do something.
Andre Ayew is a second striker and poacher of the first order.
As for Dynamos, they are reportedly luring their goal poacher back to Zimbabwe so that he could replicate his stellar performance last year ending the season with 12 goals.
Do the lions get to hang the poacher's head in their den?
It has only been in recent times through the hunting of endangered species for their tusks, horn or penis that the term ‘poacher’ has become such an ugly word.