1Someone with an aggressive, domineering personality.
Example sentencesExamples
‘They're both hard chargers and do what they need to do to win,’ Richert says.
He is a great competitor and a hard charger and he fits right in with the rest of the team.
We sure can't fault a really hard charger for tying one on every once in a while… or can we?
Being a hard charger, he responded, ‘Sure, go for it, sir.’
But the onetime hard charger has hit a wall: Because of ferocious competition from banks and MBNA's own missteps, growth has stalled.
Not only is Johnson a very likable guy, he's a hard charger.
1.1(in car racing) someone who gains a considerably better position during the course of a race.
Example sentencesExamples
Edwards is a hard charger along the lines of Jimmie Johnson - he edged Johnson for the win in Atlanta.
But driving styles could be tempered dramatically for hard chargers such as Busch, Kevin Harvick and a few others.
A professional can provide valuable guidance and smooth a lot of off-road edges; however, some hard chargers prefer the do-it-yourself path to bending rods and splashing fish.
This car is a hard charger, and not just some souped-up saloon.
We also learned that the crop of new young drivers (with a couple of exceptions) are really hard chargers.
Despite Hamilton Jr.'s reputation as a hard charger, he completed 93.5 percent of all possible laps last season.
Definition of hard charger in US English:
hard charger
noun
1Someone with an aggressive, domineering personality.
Example sentencesExamples
Being a hard charger, he responded, ‘Sure, go for it, sir.’
Not only is Johnson a very likable guy, he's a hard charger.
We sure can't fault a really hard charger for tying one on every once in a while… or can we?
But the onetime hard charger has hit a wall: Because of ferocious competition from banks and MBNA's own missteps, growth has stalled.
He is a great competitor and a hard charger and he fits right in with the rest of the team.
‘They're both hard chargers and do what they need to do to win,’ Richert says.
1.1(in car racing) someone who gains a considerably better position during the course of a race.
Example sentencesExamples
This car is a hard charger, and not just some souped-up saloon.
Despite Hamilton Jr.'s reputation as a hard charger, he completed 93.5 percent of all possible laps last season.
A professional can provide valuable guidance and smooth a lot of off-road edges; however, some hard chargers prefer the do-it-yourself path to bending rods and splashing fish.
We also learned that the crop of new young drivers (with a couple of exceptions) are really hard chargers.
But driving styles could be tempered dramatically for hard chargers such as Busch, Kevin Harvick and a few others.
Edwards is a hard charger along the lines of Jimmie Johnson - he edged Johnson for the win in Atlanta.