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heart starter

heart starter noun: a defibrillator.

Noun

heart starter (plural heart starters)

  1. A defibrillator.
  2. (Australia) An alcoholic drink, especially one taken early in the day.
    • Drunken people did not make good witnesses […], disappearing for hours at a time down the pub for more heart-starters when they should have been sitting like solid citizens in the court room.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 155

Forms of heart starter

pluralheart starters

Origin of heart starter

From heart + starter.

Questions about heart starter

What does heart starter mean?
Heart starter means a defibrillator.
What part of speech is heart starter?
Heart starter is a noun.
What is the plural of heart starter?
The plural of heart starter is heart starters.

Words near heart starter in the dictionary

  1. heart sac
  2. heart sacs
  3. heart smart
  4. heart sound
  5. heart sounds
  6. heart starter
  7. heart starters
  8. heart strings
  9. heart surgeon
  10. heart surgeons
  11. heart sweetbread

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