Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that swings.
- noun A person who actively seeks excitement and moves with the latest trends.
- noun A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex.
- noun A member of a couple, especially a married couple, who exchanges sexual partners.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which swinges.
- noun Anything very great or astonishing; a stunner; hence, a bold lie; a whopper.
- noun One who or that which swings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who swinges.
- noun Obs. or Colloq. Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
- noun One who swings or whirls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who practices
swinging (sex with different partners). - noun A
bet in which thebettor must correctly pick tworunners to finish in any of theplaces in any order. - noun One who
swinges . - noun obsolete, slang Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- noun someone who swings sports implements
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyway, that's my lead in for a re-cap of Diller's argument applied to Apple's use of Lost + Desperate Housewives (not youtube's content), combined with AOL becoming more than the 'swinging vote' and indeed the 'swinger' - All AOL need do is create a major rumour about a company they are going to buy (eg facebook), contain all leaks by not telling anyone internal, then buy a better company cheaper (need total budget around $2b, ideally MSN, maybe vonage, and something in the organic search advertising side: AOL BUY ADBRITE. com please), poach some senior Google staff and David Faber will be talking about Virginia again.
Archive 2005-10-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Anyway, that's my lead in for a re-cap of Diller's argument applied to Apple's use of Lost + Desperate Housewives (not youtube's content), combined with AOL becoming more than the 'swinging vote' and indeed the 'swinger' - All AOL need do is create a major rumour about a company they are going to buy (eg facebook), contain all leaks by not telling anyone internal, then buy a better company cheaper (need total budget around $2b, ideally MSN, maybe vonage, and something in the organic search advertising side: AOL BUY ADBRITE. com please), poach some senior Google staff and David Faber will be talking about Virginia again.
Maybe Diller was AOL Right Ben Barren 2005
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That muscle-bound sword swinger had not brains enough" "
This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Yvian was no stupid sword swinger, easily befooled.
Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964
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From that album she sang "The Mad Hatter," an uptempo swinger from the short-lived Broadway musical "Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure"; "No Finer Man," a worshipful ballad from "Cyrano de Bergerac: the Musical," which had a brief run two years ago in Tokyo; and the album's title song with lyrics by Maury Yeston.
NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN HOLDEN 2011
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From that album she sang "The Mad Hatter," an uptempo swinger from the short-lived Broadway musical "Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure"; "No Finer Man," a worshipful ballad from "Cyrano de Bergerac: the Musical," which had a brief run two years ago in Tokyo; and the album's title song with lyrics by Maury Yeston.
NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN HOLDEN 2011
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The two women who testified Tuesday detailed numerous encounters where they had unprotected sex with Gutierrez, including at several so-called swinger parties in the Wichita area.
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Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally).
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Two women who testified at that hearing detailed numerous encounters where they had unprotected sex with Gutierrez, including at several so-called swinger parties in the Wichita area.
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He must, however, work on perfecting the classic away-swinger, which is the one deficiency in an otherwise accomplished armoury.
Cricket365 | Cricket 2010
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