Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A player who plays wing, as in hockey or soccer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which wings, in any sense.
- noun A small cask or tank for holding water, stowed in the wing of a ship, where the space is much reduced by the approaching lines of the hull. (See
wing , n., 9 .) Tanks are accurately fitted to the sloping sides of the ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
- noun sports An
offensive player who plays on either side of thecenter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (sports) player in wing position
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Examples
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Let me get this straight, yet another hypocritical "christian conservative" right-winger is more interested in money than in good governance or actually following through on her campaign promises?
Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else' 2009
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Nobody in the universe can even imagine how to pretend to be surprised that yet another reich-winger is a slobbering moron.
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You know how you can tell if a right winger is standing up straight?
Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’ 2010
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I guess his being shot by a left winger is some kind of karma.
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I guess his being shot by a left winger is some kind of karma.
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So stop trying to alienate everyone who's not an ultranationalistic right winger from the US like you are!
Obama: U.S., Russia 'quite close' to forging new START treaty 2009
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If the winger is to continue in this vein, then we are in for a treat.
Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks Harry Pearson 2010
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Should we do heavy hitting for a McCain winger whose going to pull a McCain on us as son as he hits the Senate?
Ah, former Governor Palin? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Yglesias pretensions to be a left winger is nonsense, he is nothing more then a bought and paid for creature of his masters in the State Department.
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I guess his being shot by a left winger is some kind of karma.
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