merry-go-whirl

merry-go-whirl

English

Noun

merry-go-whirl (plural merry-go-whirls)

1. (rare) Synonym of merry-go-round
   • year unknown, Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Works, Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for the Year Ending December 31, ... to the City Council of the City of Chicago

     ... the playground repairmen. This apparatus consisted of athletic slides, swing sets, baby chair swing sets, see-saws, giant stride ladders, merry-go-whirls, and horizontal ladders.

   • 1958, NAEB Journal

     ... mass communications route in a merry-go-whirl of “blood, sweat and not-always-pear-shaped tones." Completely student operated by Benson's junior and senior boys ...

   • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Von Kreepsula Runs Amok" (season 1, episode 2a):

     Mona: Meanwhile, I was confronting Von Kreepsula. In the first stage of our duel, we did battle on the monkey bars of doom! Then we exchanged vampire blasts on the swing sets of chaos! Then we tried to outlast each other on the merry-go-whirl of havoc!