swinger

swing +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪŋə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swings.
   • 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (page 438)

     And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared […]

2. A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
3. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
4. A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
5. (politics, informal) A swing voter.
   • 2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian‎:

     Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future.

swinge +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)

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swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swinges.
2. (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfth Night”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], OCLC 1044244285; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, OCLC 1110372590:

     Add sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
     With store of ale too;
     And thus ye must do
     To make the wassail a swinger

• Wingers, wingers