shifter
noun
a person or thing that shifts.
shifters
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pluralof shifter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Parton could have limited her tracks to farmers, coal miners, swing shifters, assembly line workers and other laborers whom country music constantly lionizes, and no one would have complained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
The resulting integrated circuit occupies a 0.13-square-millimeter footprint that is smaller than phase shifters yet nearly doubles the channel-capacity -- i.e., data rate -- of conventional wireless arrays.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Still, he said, electric muscle cars won’t have manual shifters, and he’ll miss the smell of racing fuel at the track.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
It was the era of unfastened galoshes and the shifters club.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
