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baton twirler

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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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