slingshot

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.

   “‘Terry Madison. Instead of fiddling with that shanghai, give us a thought.’ ‘It’s a gongai,’ Swiftie said. ‘I mean that’s the name for a shanghai which is another name for a catapult...that Mr Delarue calls a slingshot.’”

2. isim 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. isim A sling bikini.
4. isim An implement of a broad fabric worn around and connecting both bicipites brachii to support benching the most heavy weights.
5. isim The act of passing cars queuing in the left-hand lane and using the right-hand lane to go around a roundabout, exiting at the desired junction having avoided the queue.
6. isim Synonym of slingshot effect.
7. fiil To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
8. fiil 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.”

9. fiil To perform the slingshot manoeuvre (see Noun).