Lefty
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who is left-handed. Canada, US, informal
- 2 a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand wordnet
- 3 One who has left-wing political views. UK, informal
"The new brocialism cares deeply about women’s issues of course – just not enough to elect an actual woman. They don’t need to, because good lefties speak for all us. They don’t even notice gender."
- 4 a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right wordnet
- 5 One's left testicle. slang
"I'll bet my lefty he won't show up for work today."
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- 6 One's left hand. Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncommon
"This pole gets whipped, I miss dishing it, putting red on the can like Pepsi Govs said I defy, I never been right but my yank does love my lefty"
- 1 Left-handed. Canada, US, not-comparable
- 2 Intended for left-handed use. Canada, US, not-comparable
"The lefty scissors are the ones with the red plastic handles."
- 3 Left-wing. UK, informal
"The prospect of an Argentinian amalgam of Bolsonaro and Trump taking power has horrified progressive voters and also, apparently, Pope Francis, whom Milei has bad-mouthed as a “lefty son of a bitch”."
Example
More examples"It’s estimated that just 10 to 12 percent of the human population is left-handed. Across cultures and over the years, left-handed people have been described as sinister, evil, crooked and the like. But in modern, more tolerant societies, the lefty seems to thrive. A University of London scholar even wrote that left-handed people produce an above-average quota of high achievers. What does it mean to be a lefty today?"
Etymology
From left + -y (nominal suffix).
From left + -y (adjectival suffix).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.