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tumbler

  • /ˈtʌmblɚ/ US

Sounds like Tumblr · Rhymes with -ʌmblə(ɹ)

noun tumblers

  1. archaic One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body. […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]

    Similar: acrobat

  2. A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
  3. A device for smoothing and polishing rough objects that are placed inside its rotating chamber. rock tumbler
  4. A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
  5. A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure. I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him.
  6. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
  7. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
  8. Something that causes something else to tumble.
  9. obsolete A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
  10. Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete A kind of cart; a tumbril.
  11. The pupa of a mosquito.
  12. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
  13. obsolete A porpoise.
  14. A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering. The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mi

    Similar: mixer

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noun movable obstruction in lock

Españolseguro
Italianonottolino, cilindro
Русскийкулачо́к kulačók

noun part of a gunlock

Italianopercussore

noun drinking glass without stem

Españolvaso de lados rectos, tumbler (túmbler), volatinero
한국어텀블러 teombeulleo, 글라스 geullaseu
日本語タンブラー tanburā, グラス gurasu
中文玻璃杯 bōlibēi
Portuguêscopo
Françaistumbler
DeutschTrinkglas, Tumbler, Glasbecher
Italianobicchiere
Ελληνικάποτήρι potíri
Русскийстака́н stakán

noun variety of pigeon

中文翻翻鴿 /翻翻鸽 fānfāngē, 筋斗鴿 /筋斗鸽 jīndǒugē
DeutschTümmler
Italianopiccione tomboliere
Русскийго́лубь-верту́н gólubʹ-vertún

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@misc{tumbler_2026,
  title = {tumbler},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tumbler},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}