spinner

See also: Spinner

English

Etymology

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

spinner (plural spinners)

A spinner (user interface element) displaying the chosen value of 4.

1. Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
2. A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
3. A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.

   I got a four on the spinner and moved my counter forward four spaces on the board.

4. (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
5. (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
   • 2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 293:

     Now, Cher was a spinner. Spinner is slang for a petite “chez chez la femme” who loved to assume the dominate sexual position on top. In other words, one could take a spinner and turn her around rapidly thus creating a circular motion and a geometrically induced orgasm.

   • 2009, K.R. Blevins, T.J. Holt, “Examining the virtual subculture of johns”, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography‎^[1], volume 38, number 5, Sage Publications:

     For example, some johns used the term spinner to refer a petite female. This was exemplified by an exchange in the Dayton forum where individuals discussed the meaning of the term spinner:
         Purplehead: I picked up what looked to be a young thin WSW just south of McDs … She looked really good, about 100 lbs, and very cute, dark hair … a definite spinner..

   • 2012, Amy Sohn, Motherland, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

     He hadn't dated any Asian girls at Princeton, even though there were tons of them. They tended to be petite, and he wasn't into little girls, "spinners," as Andy called them.

   • 2014, Tessa Bailey, Staking His Claim‎^[2], Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

     The girl peeking up at him under strawberry[-]blond curls was what men commonly referred to as a “spinner.” Petite, passionate, and pliable...one you could switch into a different sexual position without removing yourself from her heat.
     […]
     "I'm going to fuck my little spinner now. She's had it too easy so far."

   • 2016, LR Penn, The Syzygy, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 204–205:

     […] petite women, whom he called 'spinners,' because, in comparison to 'heifers,' they are far more manageable.”

6. (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
   • 1997, Lynn Marie Bacon, Getting started with Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0 for Windows 95, page 51:

     Select the number of copies you would like to print using the Number of copies spinner.

7. (cricket) A spin bowler.
8. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
9. An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
10. A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
11. A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).

    Synonym: spinner dolphin

12. A spinneret.
13. (archaic) A spider.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 289:

      Should she kill this magnetic spider, and so end its baleful influence? Incentively the trees hissed 'Yes, yes.' Motioning for them to be silent, she steadily watched the insidious spinner, now as if divining her purpose, merely an indrawn inert black speck but acutely watching her.

14. (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
15. (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
    • 2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, page 15:

      He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night.

16. Short for fidget spinner.
17. (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
18. (slang) A record turntable or CD player.

Derived terms

• cotton-spinner
• fidget spinner
• finger spinner
• gin spinner
• hand spinner
• leg spinner
• leg-spinner
• money-spinner
• off spinner
• orthodox spinner
• ring spinner
• salad spinner
• sign spinner
• spinneret
• spinner knob
• spinnerule
• spinner wheel
• steering wheel spinner
• steering wheel spinner knob
• top-spinner
• wrist spinner

 

Translations

Someone or something who spins

• Bulgarian: предач m (predač)
• Finnish: pyörittäjä
• German: Spinner (de) m, Spinnerin (de) f
• Irish: abhraiseach f (of wool)
• Italian: trottola (it) f, girandola (it) f, filatore m, filatrice f
• Spanish: girandola f
• Turkish: ip eğirici

A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers

• French:, casserole (fr) f

he coin thrower in a game of two-up

cinema: Actress or prostitute, usually very thin and small-breasted

computing: Input control for entering a number with accompanying arrowed buttons

• Finnish: numerovalitsin
• German: Spinner (de) m

cricket: A spin bowler

fishing: A type of lure

• Italian: cucchiaino (it) m
• Maori: pāua
• Turkish: zoka (tr)

Caprimulgus europaeus — see Caprimulgus europaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• nesprin, pinners

Dutch

Etymology

From spinnen (“to spin”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: spin‧ner

Noun

spinner m (plural spinners, diminutive spinnertje n)

1. a spinner: someone who makes yarn from loose fibers.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

spinner

1. present of spinne

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspineɾ/ [ˈspi.neɾ], /esˈpineɾ/ [esˈpi.neɾ]
• Rhymes: -ineɾ

Noun

spinner m (plural spinners or spinner)

1. fidget spinner

Swedish

Verb

spinner

1. present indicative of spinna

Anagrams

• prinsen