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slingshoot en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈslɪŋʃuːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From sling + shoot.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) 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:

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