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Definition of "swinger" [swing•er•swin•ger]

  • One that swings: a good swinger of baseball bats. (noun)
  • Slang A person who actively seeks excitement and moves with the latest trends. (noun)
  • Slang A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex. (noun)
  • Slang A member of a couple, especially a married couple, who exchanges sexual partners. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "swinger" in a sentence
  • "Anyway, that's my lead in for a re-cap of Diller's argument applied to Apple's use of Lost + Desperate Housewives (not youtube's content), combined with AOL becoming more than the 'swinging vote' and indeed the 'swinger' - All AOL need do is create a major rumour about a company they are going to buy (eg facebook), contain all leaks by not telling anyone internal, then buy a better company cheaper (need total budget around $2b, ideally MSN, maybe vonage, and something in the organic search advertising side: AOL BUY ADBRITE. com please), poach some senior Google staff and David Faber will be talking about Virginia again."
  • "That muscle-bound sword swinger had not brains enough" ""
  • "Yvian was no stupid sword swinger, easily befooled."