slingshoot
UK/ˈslɪŋʃuːt/
slingshoot adverb: propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.
Adverb
slingshoot (third-person singular simple present slingshoots, present participle slingshooted, simple past slingshot, past participle slingshotted)
- Propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.
- I did not like him and at times had the urge to yank back on his armbands and slingshoot him out past Otto and the lions into the street.1959, Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin, page 35
- I was always worried about Jesus’ harebrained schemes; something always seemed to go awry with them. Like the time he suggested we slingshoot a beehive off of a tree in his backyard.1994, Jose Maria Lacambra, Rising Sun Blinking: A Young Boy’s Memoirs of the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines, Sinag-tala Publishers, →ISBN, page 11, →ISBN
Forms of slingshoot
| third-person singular present | slingshoots |
|---|---|
| present participle | slingshooted |
| past | slingshot |
| past participle | slingshotted |
Origin of slingshoot
From sling + shoot.
Questions about slingshoot
- What does slingshoot mean?
- Slingshoot means propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.
- What part of speech is slingshoot?
- Slingshoot is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce slingshoot?
- Slingshoot is pronounced /ˈslɪŋʃuːt/ (UK).
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