slingshoot

slingshoot

English

Etymology

sling +‎ shoot

Pronunciation

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

Verb

slingshoot (third-person singular simple present slingshoots, present participle slingshooting, simple past slingshot, past participle slingshotten)

1. (informal, rare) Propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.
   • 1959: Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories, page 35 (Houghton Mifflin)

     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.

   • 1994: Jose Maria Lacambra, Rising Sun Blinking: A Young Boy’s Memoirs of the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines, page 11 (Sinag-tala Publishers; →ISBN, 9789711172268)

     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.

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