Definitions for flinger

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flinger fling·er

Spelling: [fling-er]

IPA: /ˈflɪŋ ər/

Flinger is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in flinger (efgilnr).

Definitions for flinger

noun

1. a person or thing that flings.
2. Also called slinger, thrower. a device, mounted on a rotating shaft, for throwing lubricant onto a bearing or for keeping grit out of a bearing by centrifugal force.

Origin of flinger

First recorded in 1490-1500; fling + -er¹

Examples for flinger

At other times he is the buccaneer, the flinger of foul oaths, and terrible damning curses.

One stoops one's head before a stone flung at one, but what of the flinger whom one is not conscious of having seen?

Well, what the deuce is he worth to you after that, either as a framer of fact or flinger of fiction?

But though he leaned far out he could not discry the flinger of the pebble.