slinger

[ sling-er ]

noun

Origin of slinger

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at sling¹, -er¹

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He dressed as the crime-fighting web slinger for Halloween, too.
Dane DeHaan’s Green Goblin Is the Best Thing About ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ | Kevin Fallon | May 2, 2014 | 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.
The Wonderful ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn:’ Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, and the HBO Movie | Allen Barra | May 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Nor, despite his reputation as a “gun slinger,” has he ever been a particularly good clutch performer.
Brett Favre, Prima Donna | Allen Barra | October 9, 2010 | 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!
Out of the Hurly-Burly | Charles Heber Clark
He had to try to better it by marrying the Swede hash-slinger from Los Angeles.
The Sheriff's Son | William MacLeod Raine

By four o'clock Benton and his rigging-slinger had just finished bunting their second batch of logs down the chute.
Big Timber | Bertrand W. Sinclair
A Balearic slinger took a step forward, put one of his clay bullets into his thong, and swung round his arm.
Salammbo | Gustave Flaubert
She flings dead worlds among the dead, as a sower his seed or a slinger his stones.
The Masque of the Elements | Herman Scheffauer

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