peeler

1. One who peels.derogatoryslang

2. One who peels.obsolete

3. (surfing) An ideal wave.Examples: "Fancy a wave, one of those little peelers?"; "If he could ride a trend as well as he could ride a First Point Malibu peeler—well, that's how the game was played."; "As the next five-foot peeler rolled by, Lee grasped his board and clenched his teeth."

4. (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.

1. (Ireland, slang) Alternative form of peeler (policeman).Examples: "The rest, on the contrary, the rather congratulated themselves on having parted with such suspicious company; -- and the little tailor had scarcely time to enunciate his advice, "to be chatting and walking on, as if they weren't thinking of or minding them at all," — when the sergeant of the party coolly took his little self by the collar, while the remaining Peelers, surrounding the others, made them severally captives."; "It at once became abundantly manifest, that those six Peelers had arrived with some object in view; and before the Sovereign People had time even to guess what that object might be, one of the Peelers very coolly depreived the horse of his nose-bag; another just as coolly returned the bit to his mouth; and a third, with equal coolness, go hold of the reins, when a fourth, who was certainly not quite so cool, did, by virtue of the application of a short round truncheon, persuade the passive animal to move on."; "The Peelers in their searches were always threatening, abusive, bad mannered and even threatened to shoot the women and were very disrespectful."Irelandalt-ofalternativeslang