swinger

Noun (1)

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swings.
   • And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared[…]2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, page 438
2. A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
3. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
4. A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
5. (informal) A swing voter.
   • Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future.2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian
6. A swing ride.
7. A passenger on a motorcycle's sidecar who athletically moves from one side to the other to alter the weight distribution.

Noun (2)

UK/ˈswɪnd͡ʒə/US/ˈswɪnd͡ʒəɹ/

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swinges.
2. (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
   • Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfe Night, or King and Queene”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas]...

Proper noun capitalized: Swinger

Swinger (plural Swingers)

1. A surname from German.