runner
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messenger
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- messenger
- courier
- errand boy
- dispatch bearer
do a runner
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- run away
- escape
- flee
- take off
- bolt
- run off
- clear out
- beat it
- abscond
- decamp
- take flight
- hook it
- scarper
- cut and run
- make a run for it
- do a bunk
- scram
- fly the coop
- show a clean pair of heels
- skedaddle
- take a powder
- take it on the lam
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Synonyms for runner
a person who carries messages or is sent on errands
a person who engages in smuggling
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Synonyms for runner
someone who imports or exports without paying duties
a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
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a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
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a trained athlete who competes in foot races
(football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
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device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
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