slingshot

English

WOTD – 18 January 2016

A slingshot

Etymology

From sling +‎ shot.

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋʃɒt
• Hyphenation: sling‧shot

Noun

slingshot (plural slingshots)

1. (chiefly US) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
2. (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.
3. A sling bikini.
4. (powerlifting) An implement of a broad fabric worn around and connecting both bicipites brachii to support benching the most heavy weights.

   Hypernym: elastic band

Synonyms

• (stick with elastic band for shooting projectiles): bean shooter, catapult (UK), flip, hand catapult, shanghai (Australia and New Zealand)

Derived terms

• gravitational slingshot
• gravity slingshot
• slingshot effect

 

Translations

Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles — see also sling

• Albanian: blorë f, llastik (sq) m
• Arabic: مِقْلَاع (miqlāʕ)
• Armenian: պարսատիկ (hy) (parsatik), ռագատկա (ṙagatka)
• Asturian: flonda
• Atong (India): patyl
• Basque: tiragoma
• Belarusian: рага́тка f (rahátka)
• Betawi: selepetan
• Bulgarian: пра́шка (bg) f (práška)
• Catalan: tirador (ca) m, profunda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彈弓／弹弓 (zh) (dàngōng)

• Czech: prak (cs) m
• Dutch: katapult (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝtonĵetileto
• Estonian: ragulka, kada
• Finnish: ritsa (fi)
• French: lance-pierre (fr) m
• Galician: truquel m, tirador m
• Georgian: შურდული (šurduli)
• German: Schleuder (de) f, Steinschleuder (de) f, Zwille (de) f
• Greek: σφεντόνα (el) f (sfentóna)

  Ancient Greek: σφενδόνη f (sphendónē)

• Hausa: màjajjawā f
• Hebrew: קלע (he) f (kéla), רוגטקה (he) f (rúgát'qa)
• Hindi: गुलेल (hi) f (gulel)
• Hungarian: csúzli (hu)
• Icelandic: teygjubyssa f
• Indonesian: ketapel (id), katapel (id), selepetan (id)
• Ingrian: nahkapyssy
• Irish: crann tabhaill m
• Italian: fionda (it) f
• Japanese: パチンコ (ja) (pachinko), スリングショット (suringshotto)
• Korean: 새총 (ko) (saechong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قۆچەقانی (ckb) (qoçeqanî)

• Lao: ກະຖຸນ (lo) (ka thun), ຫນ້າກະຖຸນ (nā ka thun)
• Latin: fustibalus m
• Macedonian: ча́тал m (čátal), пра́ќа f (práḱa), жи́ла f (žíla)
• Malay: lastik, tarbil, jepretan
• Maori: kōtaha
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чавх (mn) (čavx)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠪᠬ᠎ᠠ (čibk-a)

• Navajo: bee adiltąshí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sprettert (no) m

  Nynorsk: sprettert m

• Old English: liþere f
• Persian: کلاسنگ (kalâsang), قلاب‌سنگ (qollâb-sang), فلاخن (fa) (falâxan)
• Polish: proca (pl) f
• Portuguese: estilingue (pt), baladeira (pt), atiradeira f, fisga (pt) f, bodoque (pt) m, funda (pt) f, setra f
• Russian: рога́тка (ru) f (rogátka)
• Serbo-Croatian: mala praćka f
• Slovene: frača (sl) f
• Spanish: baladora (es) f (Peruvian Amazonia), biombo (es) m (Panama), catapulta (es) f (Costa Rica), cauchera f (Colombia), charpe (es) m (Southwestern Mexico), chilinchate m (Honduras), china (es) f (Venezuela), estiladera f (Canary Islands), fonda (es) f (Central and Western Venezuela), gomera (es) f (Argentina), gomero (es) m (Northwestern and Southern Central Spain), honda (es) f (Argentina, Colombian Caribbean Coast, Chile, Guatemala, Northwestern Venezuela, Peru, Uruguay), hondilla f (El Salvador, Honduras), hondita f (Paraguay), hulera f (Nicaragua), jebe m (Peru), resortera f (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexican standard usage), tiracantos m (Western Central Spain), tirachinas m (Spain standard usage), tirachinos m (Southwestern Spain), tiradera f (Spain's Canary Islands), tirador (es) m (Northwestern Mexico, Southern Central and Northeastern Spain), tiragomas m (Northern Central Spain, specifically Cantabria, Basque Country, Soria, La Rioja and Aragon), tirahule m (Southeastern Mexico), tirapiedras m (Cuba, Dominican Republic), tira-tira m (Northwestern Venezuela, specifically State of Falcon)
• Swedish: slangbella c
• Tagalog: saltik, paltik, tirador
• Tamil: சுண்டுவில் (ta) (cuṇṭuvil)
• Thai: หนังสติ๊ก (th) (nǎng-sà-dtík)
• Tibetan: འུར་རདོ ('ur rdo), གུར་ཐོགས (gur thogs)
• Turkish: sapan (tr)
• Ukrainian: рога́тка f (rohátka), рога́чка f (roháčka)
• Vietnamese: ná (vi)
• Welsh: sling m or f, catapwlt m

Verb

slingshot (third-person singular simple present slingshots, present participle slingshotting, simple past and past participle slingshotted)

1. To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
2. (especially) To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.

   The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.

See also

• gravity assist