flinger
noun
flinger is a noun meaning “One who flings or hurls something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-I-N-G-E-R, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flinger is flingers.
What does flinger mean?
noun
- 1
One who flings or hurls something.
- 2
One who jeers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flinger
- flingers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flinger?
Flinger appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flinger come from?
From fling + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).