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tumbler
- /ˈtʌmblɚ/ US
Sounds like Tumblr · Rhymes with -ʌmblə(ɹ)
noun tumblers
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One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
[…] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
Similar: acrobat
- 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.
- A device for smoothing and polishing rough objects that are placed inside its rotating chamber. rock tumbler
- 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.
- 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.
- A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
- A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
- Something that causes something else to tumble.
- A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
- A kind of cart; a tumbril.
- The pupa of a mosquito.
- One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
- A porpoise.
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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 part of a gunlock
| Italiano | percussore |
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noun drinking glass without stem
| Español | vaso de lados rectos, tumbler (túmbler), volatinero |
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| 한국어 | 텀블러 teombeulleo, 글라스 geullaseu |
| 日本語 | タンブラー tanburā, グラス gurasu |
| 中文 | 玻璃杯 bōlibēi |
| Português | copo |
| Français | tumbler |
| Deutsch | Trinkglas, Tumbler, Glasbecher |
| Italiano | bicchiere |
| Ελληνικά | ποτήρι potíri |
| Русский | стака́н stakán |
noun variety of pigeon
| 中文 | 翻翻鴿 /翻翻鸽 fānfāngē, 筋斗鴿 /筋斗鸽 jīndǒugē |
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| Deutsch | Tümmler |
| Italiano | piccione tomboliere |
| Русский | го́лубь-верту́н gólubʹ-vertún |
Talk about this word "tumbler." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tumbler. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tumbler. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tumbler "tumbler." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tumbler.Cite this
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