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baton twirler

American  

noun

  1. a person who twirls a baton in a parade, exhibition, or competition.


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A baton twirler from a small town with dreams of big-city life?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

As a schoolgirl, Justice Ginsburg — known to friends as “Kiki” — was smart, popular and competitive, both a bookworm and a baton twirler.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2020

“There is one big thing we preach here,” said Sarah Paulus, a junior TV production major and the band’s baton twirler.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2017

Owens told me that, in the past year at St. Thomas, he had identified concussions in two female soccer players, two volleyball players, and a baton twirler.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2017

Then they sashayed past us, the one wearing Vonetta’s watch snaking her wrist around and around like a baton twirler, except there was no baton.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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