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Definition of Slinger
1. Noun. A person who uses a sling to throw something.
Definition of Slinger
1. n. One who slings, or uses a sling.
Definition of Slinger
1. Noun. someone who slings or who uses a sling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slinger
1. one that slings [n -S] - See also: slings
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slinger
Literary usage of Slinger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Hence " hash-slinger," one who eats at an ordinary table, ... Ink- slinger," a
writer. " Don't sling your sass at me," means give me no more of your ..."
2. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1906)
"slinger, Miss Edith C. Miniature Painter. 22, Church Road, Urmston, near Manchester.
... slinger, F. J Painter. 2, Gower Street North. 1858. 2 "Bless us! ..."
3. A Compendious Hebrew Lexicon, Adapted to the English Language, and Composed by Samuel Pike (1811)
"... y,3 to swing or sling out: a sling, a slinger. D'J^p the hangings of the
tabernacle, which hung down in a swinging state : to carve or figure after the ..."
4. Thomas Alva Edison by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1915)
"CHAPTER IV THE CRACK " LIGHTNING-slinger " "DOT; dash, dot, dot; dot, dot; dot,
dot, dot; dot, (space), dot; dash, dot." After all the years, ..."
5. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"James Irwin, an iron broker of New York City; he received a college education;
he married Mary A. slinger. He served in the Spanish-American war in Company ..."
6. Hunting in the Great West. (Rustlings in the Rockies.): Hunting and Fishing by George O. Shields (1883)
"BUT HUFFMAN HAS MY GUN — A DAY ON BENNETT CREEK — ALLEN IN LUCK—HUFFMAN CURSES
HIS KENNEDY PEA-slinger—NOTHING BUT " WOODCHUCK "—UNIVERSAL DAMPNESS—THE LUCK ..."
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