swinger

English

Etymology 1

swing +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪŋə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

Noun

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swings.
   • 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (page 438)

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

2. A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
3. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
4. A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
5. (politics, informal) A swing voter.
   • 2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

person who practices swinging

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交換配偶的人, 交换配偶的人 (jiāohuàn pèi'ǒu de rén)

• Finnish: pintaliitäjä
• French: échangiste (fr) m or f

• German: Swinger (de) m, Swingerin (de) f
• Japanese: スインガー (suingā)
• Russian: сви́нгер (ru) m (svínger)

Etymology 2

swinge +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪndʒə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒə(ɹ)

  • Audio (UK)

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Noun

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swinges.
2. (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Herrick to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Wingers, wingers