swinger

See also: Swinger

English

From swing +‎ -er.

swinger (plural swingers)

One who swings.
- 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, page 438:
  And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared […]
A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
(politics, informal) A swing voter.
- 2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  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.
A swing ride.

person who practices swinging

From swinge +‎ -er.

swinger (plural swingers)

One who swinges.
(obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfe Night, or King and Queene”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 377:
  Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.

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Borrowed from English swinger. Attested since 1971.

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