Definitions for flingers

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flingers fling·er

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IPA: /ˈflɪŋ ər/

Flingers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 304 anagrams from letters in flingers (efgilnrs).

Definitions for flingers

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 flingers

First recorded in 1490-1500; fling + -er¹

Examples for flingers

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

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

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

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