Crossword clues for slingshot
slingshot
- Y-shaped launcher
- What some of the black squares in the grid might represent
- Weapon in the David and Goliath story
- Stone propeller
- Spaceship acceleration maneuver
- Pebble propeller
- No slights (anag) — catapult (US)
- Goliath's least-favorite weapon
- Goliath slayer
- Goliath killer
- Catapult — thin gloss (anag)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (label en chiefly American) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic band between the arms used for shooting small projectiles. vb. 1 To move in a manner resembling a slingshot. 2 Especially, to use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.
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Wikipedia
A slingshot or slingshut (claimed to be primarily American but not known to ever be used in any dialect), catapult (primarily British English for a different device of a different design and purpose), shanghai or ging (primarily Australian and New Zealand), kattie (in South Africa), bean shooter, or flip or tirador (primarily Tagalog), is normally a small hand-powered projectile weapon. The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame held in the off hand, with two natural-rubber strips attached to the uprights. The other ends of the strips lead back to a pocket that holds the projectile. The dominant hand grasps the pocket and draws it back to the desired extent to provide power for the projectile - up to a full span of the arm with sufficiently long bands.
Slingshot is a disco/ dance music band from Detroit, Michigan. Its members include Jack Tann, Greg Sawton, David Van DePitte and John Lewis.
Their one and only chart entry was a 1983 cover version of a medley of Steely Dan's song " Do It Again" and Michael Jackson's #1 hit single " Billie Jean", originally done in the same year by Italo disco studio project Clubhouse. This track (which is listed on the Rhino Records album Billboard Top Dance Hits 1983 as " Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean") hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in August 1983. They also recorded a unique version of AC/DC's 1980 hit " You Shook Me All Night Long" with singer Kathy Kosins vocalizing the lyrics over Kraftwerk's " Tour de France", as performed by the group.
A slingshot is a small hand-powered projectile weapon.
Slingshot may also refer to:
- Slingshot!, an anarchist newspaper based in Berkeley, California
- Slingshot argument, an argument in logics that tries to show that all true sentences stand for the same thing
- Kolb Slingshot, an ultralight aircraft
- Polaris Slingshot, a three wheeled motor vehicle
- Slingshot or front engine dragster, a variety of drag race car
- Slingshot ride, an amusement park ride
- Slingshot (water vapor distillation system), an invention by Dean Kamen
- Slingshot (ISP), a New Zealand internet service provider
- Gravitational slingshot, the use of a planet's gravity to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft
- Slungshot, a weight on the end of a cord used as a weapon, which used to be referred to as a slingshot
- Sling swimsuit
- Slingshot (album), a 1981 album by Michael Henderson
- Slingshot (film), a 2005 film by Jay Alaimo, starring Balthazar Getty and David Arquette
- SlingShot (2014 film), a 2014 documentary film focuses on noted Segway inventor, Dean Kamen, and his work to solve the world's water crisis.
- Slingshot (band), a disco/dance music band from Detroit
- The Slingshot, Korean television series
- Slingshot, an alter ego of Silk Spectre (Laurie Juspeczyk) in a draft script of the film The Watchmen
- Slingshot (video game), an open source strategy-simulation computer game
- Slingshot (Transformers), a character from Transformers
- Anti-aircraft vehicle in Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
- Slingshot move, a professional wrestling technique
Slingshot is the third largest telecommunications company in New Zealand. It has an approximately 10% market share of the New Zealand fixed telephone landline and residential broadband market.
Slingshot is a water purification device created by inventor Dean Kamen. Powered by a Stirling engine running on a combustible fuel source, it claims to be able to produce drinking water from almost any source by means of vapor compression distillation, requires no filters, and can operate using cow dung as fuel.
The name of the machine is a reference to the slingshot used by David to defeat Goliath.
Slingshot, in comics, may refer to:
- Slingshot, an alias used by the Image Comics character Menagerie (Image Comics)
- Slingshot, the alias of Marvel Comics character Yo-Yo Rodriguez
- Slingshot (Transformers), a Transformer who has appeared in comic book adaptations of the toys
- Slingshot (DC Comics), two DC Comics characters
Slingshot is the sixth album by American bass guitarist Michael Henderson. Released in 1981 on Buddah Records.
SlingShot is a Sling Shot ride built by Funtime at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio and Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. SlingShot is an additional charge attraction.
Mercy is a 2005 American independent crime film written and directed by Jay Alaimo and starring David Arquette, Thora Birch and Balthazar Getty.
Usage examples of "slingshot".
Slingshot Extractor and Collector terminals en route and at their destinations.
Rivas heard the skid and clatter of one of the hooter bikes turning around, and he lifted the slingshot and faced that direction.
For the next several months Barbas would be convenient for a slingshot maneuver, by which traffic outbound from Magaria would pick up speed by slinging themselves around it en route to the wormhole.
It was equally possible, and a good deal more probable, thatJudge Kybiq could make a slight, last-minute alteration of course, then slingshot itself around thefar side of Barbas and head for Wormhole 4 and an interception ofCorona.
The opposing forces were on courses that would intersect, both heading for Barbas to slingshot around the big planet and head for the inner system.
Consider UIPS limitations in nonrenewable metals, minerals and other vital reserves until Slingshot begins to produce.
Defense Alert One remains in effect at Slingshot construction site and throughout Plutonian Special Zone.
The Slingshot Logistics Depot, which occupies space within Plutonian jurisdiction, and all UIPS cargo transports entering Plutonian space, are subject to this inventory tax.
Fleet Commander of this Plutonian Security Force wishes to speak with the Commander of the Slingshot Logistics Depot.
These ships were part of a small protective force that the UIPS maintains in the Plutonian Special Zone for the safety of the Slingshot terminals and its logistics depot.
The other INOR ships will still rendezvous with the Plutonian fleet at Point Icarus, halfway between the depot and the Slingshot work site.
Huge, tusklike protrusions thrust upward from the bow, and between them was mounted what appeared to be a giant slingshot.
Their bicycles were leaned up against the lampposts on Main Street outside, and they had slingshots stuck in the back pockets of their jeans.
The trebuchets looked ungainly - oversized slingshots with heavy wooden beams bracing the armature for the firing paddle, which was winched back by stout hemp ropes, then released to snap upward, flinging its payload over the castle walls.
Soon he began to scratch at the keys, first with two fingers, then with his left hand, thumb capering on the space bar, eventually both hands working, ten fingers crashing on the keys, his head moving closer to the black machine, eyes appearing to follow the arc of each metal slingshot hurling ink upon the page.