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lifter¹

  • /ˈlɪftə/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪftə(ɹ)

noun lifters

  1. A weightlifter. heavy lifters
  2. A tappet. solid lifters
  3. A delivery that bounces well off the pitch. When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]
  4. A spatula.
  5. A thief. an inveterate lifter

    Similar: abstractor, appropriator, bagger, booster, borrower, cribber, faker, filcher, flogger, heister, larcener, larcenist

  6. An ionocraft.

Similar: fish slice, spatula, turner

lifter²

  • /ˈlɪftə/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪftə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum.

noun lifters

  1. A filter that operates on a cepstrum.

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noun

Similar: fish slice, spatula, turner

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"lifter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lifter. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

lifter. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lifter

Chicago

"lifter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lifter.

BibTeX
@misc{lifter_2026,
  title = {lifter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lifter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}