spinner
See also: Spinner
English
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Etymology
From Middle English spynner; equivalent to spin + -er.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
spinner (plural spinners)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Tabstop-spinner-gedit.png/220px-Tabstop-spinner-gedit.png)
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
- 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.
- (obsolete) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- (slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- 1997, Lynn Marie Bacon, Getting started with Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0 for Windows 95 (page 51)
- Select the number of copies you would like to print using the Number of copies spinner.
- 1997, Lynn Marie Bacon, Getting started with Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0 for Windows 95 (page 51)
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- A goatsucker.
- A spinneret.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- 2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days (page 15)
- 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.
- 2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days (page 15)
- Short for fidget spinner.
Derived terms
Translations
Someone or something who spins
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he coin thrower in a game of two-up
cinema: Actress or prostitute, usually very thin and small-breasted
computing: Input control for entering a number with accompanying arrowed buttons
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cricket: A spin bowler
fishing: A type of lure
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From spinnen (“to spin”) + -er.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: spin‧ner
Noun
spinner m (plural spinners, diminutive spinnertje n)
- a spinner: someone who makes yarn from loose fibers.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
spinner
Spanish
Noun
spinner m (plural spinners or spinner)
Swedish
Verb
spinner
- (deprecated template usage) present tense of spinna.
Anagrams
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