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  • noun Plural form of slinger.

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Examples

  • Many are KKK members, rednecks, grade school dropouts and gun slingers from the gutters of our politics.

    Tea Party movement attempts to unite? 2010

  • The Beats were advance word slingers prefiguring the counterculture of the 1960s, forecasting its main obsessions and ecstasies of liberation, essentially a "youth revolt" against all that our postwar society was doing to us (even as Henry Miller in the 1940s had sensed that "another breed of men has taken over" in an air-conditioned nightmare.)

    November 2006 2006

  • The Beats were advance word slingers prefiguring the counterculture of the 1960s, forecasting its main obsessions and ecstasies of liberation, essentially a "youth revolt" against all that our postwar society was doing to us (even as Henry Miller in the 1940s had sensed that "another breed of men has taken over" in an air-conditioned nightmare.)

    More Ferlinghetti 2006

  • In this heady atmosphere, the idea slingers are at work.

    B2fxxx 2005

  • Players take control of a nameless Kusagari, a legendary clan of sword slingers, who has returned to his home town of Caldera to find it overrun by a group of Jackals.

    Cubed3.com News 2010

  • We hope it will be an opportunity for younger writers and spoken word slingers from our communities across LA to become familiar with and be mentored by more established writers from across the state and the nation while stimulating the creation and development of an annual

    La Bloga 2010

  • Moreover, if the word "slingers" is advisedly chosen, it introduces a kind of warfare which is not mentioned in other Tusayan legends, although apparently throwing stones at their enemies was practiced among Pueblos of other stocks in early historic times. [

    Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

  • The boys would make "slingers", or pea shooters, from pens … to fire missiles around the room … "

    whoar.co.nz 2010

  • According to one judge, the greatest crime committed by these slingers of drink and purveyors of commercial sex “was not only of making Negro slaves their equals, but even their superiors, by waiting upon, keeping with, and entertaining them with meat, drink, and lodging.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Only sideline crap slingers like Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck CAN lead the republican party, because they have nothing at risk.

    Poll: Limbaugh most influential conservative, say Americans 2009

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  • (n, pl.): Pieces of bread soaked in tea. Dialect word from Dorset, England.

    June 26, 2009