Bible-pounder

noun

Bi·ble-pound·er

variants: or less commonly bible-pounder

plural Bible-pounders also bible-pounders

Definition of Bible-pounder

US, informal

: bible-thumper A typical God-fearing Bible-pounder who believes that money in the bank is a sign of God's approval. —Trevanian, Incident at Twenty-Mile, 1999 He wants to connect the kind of people that he represents—Evangelical Christians—but not necessarily the image of Evangelical Christians that you may have of some sort of fundamentalist Bible-pounder, those sorts of clichés from popular imagination. —Ron Elving, National Public Radio, 18 Aug. 2008

Other words from Bible-pounder

Bible-pounding or less commonly bible-pounding adjective

Many people in our culture today try to stereotype Christians as wild-eyed zealots and legalistic Bible-pounding bigots. —Charles W. Colson et al., Answers To Your Kids' Questions, 2000