(n.) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
(n.) A person who engages frequently in lively and fashionable pursuits, such as attending night clubs or discos.
(n.) A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, contrary to expectations, swingers belonged to more community organizations than nonswingers and responded in a less alienated fashion on two items.
(2) In real life, before Play, Moby was bumping around New York, getting DJ gigs in now legendary clubs like Mars and Nasa, as well as awful swingers’ nights (he says he would play anywhere).
(3) Among 85 male undergraduates, high need for power as measured by the 1968 Winter scoring system is shown to relate to high drinking frequency (p less than .01), high alcohol consumption (p less than .05), and taking the first drink at age 16 or less (p less than .05); to the Disinhibition ("Swinger") factor on Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (p less than .05) to poor academic performance (p less than .05); and to generate a regression equation with the California Psychological Inventory that suggests qualities of personal disorderliness and intellectual aggression.
(4) He has asked if I will come to a swingers’ party and watch porn with him.
(5) Finally, an optical non-freeze epikeratoplasty processed by the Non-freeze Barraquer-Krumreich-Swinger refractive set (BKS-1000) was sewn on the recipient cornea with a double running antitorque suture.
(6) It is not the most obvious of roles for Bean, now 58, who built a name for himself as a swashbuckler and sword-swinger, famous mostly for his many glorious on-screen deaths .
(7) Eight years later they'd meet again at Villa Park, Rafael Albrecht getting himself sent off for kneeing Helmut Haller in the swingers during a tempestuous (but goalless) group game.
(8) At the other end the Timbers get another free kick in Johnson in swinger territory.
(9) His studio flat was rented out to David Charles, also known as David Sands, a pensioner who was a glamour photographer and ran a "swingers' club" in nearby Southampton for couples looking to spice up their sex lives.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vince Vaughan ‘grabbed my shoulder as if I was a minor character in Swingers’.
(11) A group of 114 swingers, along with a control group of 114 nonswingers, responded to a questionnaire containing a number of demographic and attitudinal items.
(12) It's not quite fair to call it Swingers: The Middle-Aged Spread, but both films feel intensely personal and passionate.
(13) (10) Including the Rich Kids, Hot Club, Dead Men Walking, the Flying Padovanis, Slinky Vagabond, the Mavericks, the Philistines and, most recently, International Swingers .
(14) However, swingers were no different on political identification or newness to the middle class.
(15) The second has argued that swingers are more likely to be less attached to the community and the institutions in society.
(16) Reported the Washington Post : “A current line in New York has it: Talese set out to write a book on the 70s, and wrote one about the 50s.” In that scandal, the veracity of his stories of swingers, massage parlors, and the Playboy Mansion weren’t themselves called into question, so much as his immersive reporting methods.
(17) If you want to impress people you have to introduce them to other big swingers.
(18) · Last week, the paper was forced to pay former leader of the Scottish Socialist party Tommy Sheridan £200,000 in damages after he sued for libel over untrue allegations that he had cheated on his wife and visited swingers' clubs.
(19) The first, rooted in the concept of marginality, is based on the idea that swingers are relatively new to their communities and to the middle class.
(20) The Neighbours A Dutch import based on a bestselling novel, this is a drama about a couple who move to the suburbs and befriend a pair of swingers – with disastrous consequences.
Tramp
Definition:
(v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
(v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
(v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
(v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
(n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
(n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
(n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
(n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
(n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
(2) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(3) They left him with an enduring sympathy for the poor and marginalised, embodied in his Little Tramp character .
(4) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
(5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(6) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
(7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
(8) "Personally I longed for human society and for exercise (a good long tramp for example), but no doubt Odilo had his reasons".
(9) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
(10) This tireless, Glasgow-built cargo ship has been tramping between Kampala and Mwanza, Tanzania's second most populous city, for more than 40 years.
(11) The Clos was created in 1933 by the city of Paris on what was previously, according to a municipal tin placard, "a waste land, the refuge of tramps and a playground for local children".
(12) Diplomats and staff tramped across the rain-soaked grass of the UN’s Rose Garden on the banks of the East River to watch.
(13) A tramp who smacks himself repeatedly about the body.
(14) But as we tramp back to the village, it’s worth mourning that golden age of privacy, and the city that allowed people to reinvent themselves like the characters in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
(15) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
(16) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
(17) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
(18) And, like tramps, we expect to be moved on, sooner or later, as more and more of London’s public space becomes private.
(19) Richard, a long-time mountain devotee, agrees: "As someone who's tramped over its slopes many, many times, I simply don't understand how a mountain can be valued at £1.75m to pay off tax.
(20) Elevated affective excitability was the most common of all psychopathy-like disorders, followed by the syndrome of home leaving and tramping, the aggressive-sadistic syndrome, and mental instability.