swivelchair

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Noun[edit]

swivelchair (plural swivelchairs)

  1. Alternative form of swivel chair
    • 2010, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men:
      The man fell back through his swivelchair knocking it over and went to the floor and lay there twitching and gurgling.
    • 2011, Edmund Crispin, Beware of the Trains:
      Beeton leaned back with an air of luxury, his heavy bulk overflowing the swivelchair; he was the archetypal countryman, slow but intuitive, blank of eye yet with a vein of simple cunning such as all those who trap or shoot animals tend in time to acquire.
    • 2014, Keith Laufenberg, The Profit Factor, page 11:
      As JoAnn Treat prepared two coffees Barbara Roberts slid into her swivelchair, removed her thermos from her bag, and poured a cup of decaffeinated coffee.