flinger
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈflɪŋər/
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lanzador
- Second: France's tax code includes 100% free health care, 5 weeks paid vacation per year for all citizens who work full time regardless of their job (even fast food flingers get their 5 weeks a year).
Examples
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Frequency Flinger, Sir-Zaps-A-Lot.
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Poop-flingers will be poop-flingers.
Blog text (11) -
The point is, your boy's a Limey fork-flinger, Mother.
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At the main entrance, on the way out, I passed through a gauntlet of rice-flingers.
Fiction book (1997) -
Poop-flingers will be poop-flingers.
Blog text (11) -
The pinstriped woo-flinger probably didn't read the sexism threads.
Blog text (2) -
"Portside flinger Roger Guppy twirled a nifty nine-hitter.
Fiction book (2001) -
Probably another group of strikers, disgruntled taxi drivers, brick flingers, or gravel crushers.
Fiction book (1998) -
The child was a master flinger, effortlessly tossing the ball across the yard.
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The catapult is a powerful flinger that can launch projectiles over long distances.
Synonyms
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2.2
A person who sends a thing through the air with a quick arm movement, for example a javelin athlete
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9.3
A person who throws stones using a leather strap and small bag
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7.8
A person who throws a ball, like a pitcher
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8.2
A tool for throwing a spear or dart much farther than by hand
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6.7
A person who throws knives at targets as part of a show
A person who throws things like stones at people or places
A tool like a stick that helps you throw a spear or dart farther
A person who hits or throws a ball high over another player
A soldier who throws grenades during close fighting
A person who throws small wet paper balls at others as a prank
Antonyms
- US
122
3.5
A baseball player who crouches behind home plate and gets the ball when the batter misses
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flinger comes from the word fling, which means 'to throw' or 'send with a quick movement', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who does'. So a flinger is a person or device that throws things suddenly and forcefully.