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flinger

/fling-er/US // ˈflɪŋ ər //

笛子,笛声,笛手,笛音

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that flings.
    • : Also called slinger, thrower. a device, mounted on a rotating shaft, for throwing lubricant onto a bearing or for keeping grit out of a bearing by centrifugal force.

Examples

  • But though he leaned far out he could not discry the flinger of the pebble.

  • One stoops one's head before a stone flung at one, but what of the flinger whom one is not conscious of having seen?

  • Well, what the deuce is he worth to you after that, either as a framer of fact or flinger of fiction?

  • But the swarthy flinger for the local club was not a bit behind him.

  • At other times he is the buccaneer, the flinger of foul oaths, and terrible damning curses.