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slungshots

slungshots is the plural of slungshot.

Meaning of slungshot

Noun

slungshot (plural slungshots)

  1. A maritime tool consisting of a weight (the "shot") affixed to the end of a long cord, used to cast line from one location to another and sometimes as an improvised weapon.
    • All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung[-]shot could not have brought her down better.1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter II, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 35

Questions about slungshots

What is slungshots the plural of?
Slungshots is the plural of slungshot.

Words near slungshots in the dictionary

  1. slung over
  2. slung the hatchet
  3. slung to
  4. slung up
  5. slungshot
  6. slungshots
  7. Slunj
  8. slunk
  9. slunken
  10. slunks
  11. slunt

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