swinger
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
swinger (plural swingers)
- 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 […]
- 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (page 438)
- A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
- A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
- A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
- (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[edit]
person who practices swinging
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
swinger (plural swingers)
- One who swinges.
- (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Herrick to this entry?)
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