swinger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who takes part in consensual partner-swapping or group sexual activity

   The documentary interviewed swingers about consent and privacy within their community.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who swings an object, moves by swinging, or causes something suspended to swing

   The censer's swinger controlled its arc with a steady rhythm.

3. 3
   noun

   dated: a lively, fashionable, socially confident person

   In the 1960s he acquired a reputation as a wealthy international swinger.

An agent noun formed from swing + -er. The literal sense is anyone or anything that swings. Twentieth-century slang developed first for a lively, fashionable person and then for a participant in consensual sexual partner exchange.

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