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swinger¹

  • /ˈswɪŋə/ UK
  • /ˈswɪŋəɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪŋə(ɹ)

noun swingers

  1. One who swings. 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. informal A swing voter. 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.
  6. A swing ride.
  7. A passenger on a motorcycle's sidecar who athletically moves from one side to the other to alter the weight distribution.

swinger²

  • /ˈswɪnd͡ʒə/ UK
  • /ˈswɪnd͡ʒəɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪndʒə(ɹ)

noun swingers

  1. One who swinges.
  2. obsolete, slang Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing. Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.

Swinger³

Where it comes from

Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Schwinger or Zwinger.

proper noun Swingers

  1. A surname from German.

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noun person who practices swinging

日本語スインガー suingā
中文交換配偶的人 /交换配偶的人 jiāohuàn pèi'ǒu de rén
Françaiséchangiste
DeutschSwinger, Swingerin
Italianoscambista
Русскийсви́нгер svínger

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@misc{swinger_2026,
  title = {swinger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swinger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}