-ers Chiefly Brit. a semantically empty suffix that creates informal variations of nouns and adjectives: champers; preggers; starkers. [perhaps a conflation of -er7 with the final element of bonkers and crackers (unless these words themselves contain this suffix); compare -s3] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.