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Slingshot
ˈslɪŋʃɒt
Slingshot definitions
verb
slingshots
slingshotting
slingshot
slingshotted
- forcefully accelerate through the effect of gravity
"the car would hit the first dip, then slingshot off the second rise"
noun
slingshot
slingshots
- a forked stick, to which an elastic strap (or a pair of elastic bands connected by a small sling) is fastened to the two prongs, typically used for shooting small stones; a catapult
- a shot from a slingshot
"you'll get whizzed out the window like a slingshot"
- the effect of the gravitational pull of a celestial object in accelerating and changing the course of another object or a spacecraft
"stars passing near a black hole might be ejected by a gravitational slingshot effect"