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Swinger

//ˈswɪŋə// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who swings.

    "And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared[…]"

  2. 2
    One who swinges.
  3. 3
    a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex wordnet
  4. 4
    A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
  5. 5
    Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing. obsolete, slang

    "Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger."

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  1. 6
    someone who swings sports implements wordnet
  2. 7
    A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
  3. 8
    A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
  4. 9
    A swing voter. informal

    "Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future."

  5. 10
    A swing ride.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From swing + -er.

Etymology 2

From swinge + -er.

Etymology 3

Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Schwinger or Zwinger.

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