swinger

From swing + -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪŋə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪŋəɹ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: swing‧er

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swings.
   • 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, page 438:

     And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared […]

2. (sex) 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. (politics, informal) A swing voter.
   • 2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

6. A swing ride.
7. (motor racing) A passenger on a motorcycle's sidecar who athletically moves from one side to the other to alter the weight distribution.

From swinge + -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪnd͡ʒə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪnd͡ʒəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: swing‧er

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swinges.
2. (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
   • 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] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 377:

     Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.

• Wingers, wingers

Borrowed from English swinger. Attested since 1971.

swinger c

1. a swinger (person who practices swinging)

• swingerklubb

• swinging

• “swinger”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “swinger”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)