swinger
Americannoun
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swingers
plural
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a person or thing that swings.
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Slang. a lively, active, and modern person whose activities are fashionable or trendy.
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Slang.
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a person who indulges in promiscuous sex.
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a person who engages in the exchanging of spouses for sexual activities.
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noun
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a person regarded as being modern and lively
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a person who swaps sexual partners in a group, esp habitually
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of swinger
First recorded in 1535–45 swinger for def. 1; 1955–60 swinger for def. 2; swing 1 + -er 1
Example Sentences
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A full away swinger was nicked to first slip by number eight Shardul Thakur.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
“If you’re looking at the DNA of the two hitters, Shohei is more of a free swinger than Freddie is,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Nixon at first found Kissinger’s image as a swinger amusing, but later tired of it.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
But as the amplitude increases, the optimal timing shifts to favor leaning back earlier, when the swinger is at the highest point in her backswing.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023
To some of them the neurotic patient was a swinger of the lead, a malingerer.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill
The king of the swingers has been uncharacteristically treading water for days at around $20,000 and hasn't ventured far beyond that since June.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2022
In one episode in 2018 the Smiths sought to dispel rumors, noting that they are neither swingers nor Scientologists, after reports over the years that they had donated money to causes affiliated with Scientology.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
"We’ve never been Scientologists. We’ve never been swingers."
From Fox News ● Mar. 30, 2022
They were wayward to the point that not even the freest of swingers, think Yuniesky Betancourt, would even consider taking a hack at them.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
I dunno what happened at all, at all, with dancin' gurrls an' snake cha-armers an' Boolgarian club swingers an' foreign men goin' around with their legs in mattesses.
From The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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