swinger
pronunciation
How to pronounce swinger in British English:
UK [ˈswɪŋə(r)]
How to pronounce swinger in American English:
US [ˈswɪŋɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who swings sports implements
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
Word Origin
- swinger (n.)
- 1540s, "one who or that which swings," agent noun from swing (v.). Also (now obsolete) "anything big or great" (1580s). Meaning "person who is sexually promiscuous" is from 1964. Old English swingere (n.) meant "one who strikes, scourger."
Example
- 1. Thought I was a swinger , I guess .
- 2. Do you have any advice for a couple of swinger wannabes ?
- 3. Nevada , colorado and new mexico account for 20 electoral-college votes , compared with 18 for perennial swinger ohio .
- 4. Forty years ago feldstein was a swinger .
- 5. That guy is a real swinger .