What is 'r?
1.
suffix added to the end of a verb or other type of word to transform it into a noun, as one ‘doing’ the verb, sometimes not taken entirely literally; equivalent to tagging on an ‘-er’{hyphen included}, though consumes less space and takes less time to type, plus looks cleaner for ‘irregular’ and
By my bookIn my eyes,
Pete Rose *is* an MBL HoF'r, even if he doesn’t have his name on a plaque declaring such.
{Translation: As I see it,P. Rose *is* in the Major-League Baseball Hall of Fame, even if he doeesn’t hold the honor of having his name embedded on a plaque declaring such, or he damn-well deserves to be at any rate.}