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slinger

[ sling-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that slings. sling.
  2. Machinery. flinger ( def 2 ).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of slinger1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; sling 1, -er 1
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Example Sentences

He dressed as the crime-fighting web slinger for Halloween, too.

She was the only one of his four wives who could challenge him as a word slinger, both on paper and verbally.

Nor, despite his reputation as a “gun slinger,” has he ever been a particularly good clutch performer.

What d'you mean by printing such awful doggerel as this, you depraved and dissolute ink-slinger—you imbecile quill-driver, you!

He had to try to better it by marrying the Swede hash-slinger from Los Angeles.

By four o'clock Benton and his rigging-slinger had just finished bunting their second batch of logs down the chute.

A Balearic slinger took a step forward, put one of his clay bullets into his thong, and swung round his arm.

She flings dead worlds among the dead, as a sower his seed or a slinger his stones.

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