slinger

[ sling-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that slings. sling.
2. Machinery. flinger ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of slinger¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; sling ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

He dressed as the crime-fighting web slinger for Halloween, too.

From The Daily Beast

She was the only one of his four wives who could challenge him as a word slinger, both on paper and verbally.

From The Daily Beast

Nor, despite his reputation as a “gun slinger,” has he ever been a particularly good clutch performer.

From The Daily Beast

What d'you mean by printing such awful doggerel as this, you depraved and dissolute ink-slinger—you imbecile quill-driver, you!

From Project Gutenberg

He had to try to better it by marrying the Swede hash-slinger from Los Angeles.

From Project Gutenberg

By four o'clock Benton and his rigging-slinger had just finished bunting their second batch of logs down the chute.

From Project Gutenberg

A Balearic slinger took a step forward, put one of his clay bullets into his thong, and swung round his arm.

From Project Gutenberg

She flings dead worlds among the dead, as a sower his seed or a slinger his stones.

From Project Gutenberg