Usually means: Device to launch projectiles using elasticity.
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  1. slingshot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slingshot: Merriam-Webster
  3. slingshot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slingshot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slingshot: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Slingshot, slingshot: Wordnik
  8. slingshot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slingshot: Wiktionary
  10. slingshot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slingshot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slingshot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slingshot: Dictionary.com
  14. slingshot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. slingshot: Rhymezone
  17. Slingshot: American-Britih Dictionary
  18. slingshot: FreeDictionary.org
  19. slingshot: Mnemonic Dictionary
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noun:  (chiefly US, Philippines) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
noun:  (pinball) A stationary, often triangular object that launches any ball that hits its longest side back at a high force, now usually located above the flipper and between it and the inlane, with one each for both lower flippers.
noun:  A sling bikini.
noun:  (powerlifting) An implement of a broad fabric worn around and connecting both bicipites brachii to support benching the most heavy weights.
verb:  To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
verb:  (especially) To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.

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