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
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The first known use of Bible-pounder was circa 1889
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