What does "spinner" mean?
Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
Spinner
/ˈspɪnɚ/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- Grammar: spinner is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: aeroplane, airplane, bait, birdlime.
- Useful contrasts: immobility, stationarity, weaver.
- Usage evidence: I got a four on the spinner and moved my counter forward four spaces on the board.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins. agent, form-of
- 2 fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water wordnet
- 3 A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- 4 board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game wordnet
- 5 A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
"I got a four on the spinner and moved my counter forward four spaces on the board."
Show 19 more definitions
- 6 someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) wordnet
- 7 The coin thrower in a game of two-up. Australia, New-Zealand
- 8 A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo. Australia, slang
- 9 Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted. often, slang, vulgar
"Now, Cher was a spinner. Spinner is slang for a petite “chez chez la femme” who loved to assume the dominate sexual position on top. In other words, one could take a spinner and turn her around rapidly thus creating a circular motion and a geometrically induced orgasm."
- 10 An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
"Select the number of copies you would like to print using the Number of copies spinner."
- 11 A spin bowler.
"I can ascertain that even in the present era where T20 cricket has redefined spin bowling and spinners have started bowling doosras and teesras and fire the deliveries in, you can expect Bishan Singh Bedi to stick to his original definition, and insist that, 'A spinner is one who turns the ball...'"
- 12 A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
"Robert had never done a spinner in his life."
- 13 A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- 14 An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- 15 A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- 16 A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- 17 A spinneret.
- 18 A spider. archaic
"Should she kill this magnetic spider, and so end its baleful influence? Incentively the trees hissed 'Yes, yes.' Motioning for them to be silent, she steadily watched the insidious spinner, now as if divining her purpose, merely an indrawn inert black speck but acutely watching her."
- 19 A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands. Jamaica
- 20 A spin doctor. slang
"He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night."
- 21 Ellipsis of fidget spinner. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 22 A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- 23 A record turntable or CD player. slang
- 24 A disc jockey. slang
Antonyms
Example
"I got a four on the spinner and moved my counter forward four spaces on the board."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "spinner"?
Common synonyms include: aeroplane, airplane, bait, birdlime, blade lure, bola.
How do you use "spinner" in a sentence?
I got a four on the spinner and moved my counter forward four spaces on the board.
How do you pronounce "spinner"?
Pronounced /ˈspɪnɚ/.
Etymology
From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.