tumbler
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈtʌmblɚ/(US)
Definition of tumbler
14 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
“[…] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]”
“[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.”
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noun
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(archaic)One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
“[…] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]”
“[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.”
- A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
- A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
- A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
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A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.
“I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him.”
“"You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain. "You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied. "I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.”
- A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
- A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
- Something that causes something else to tumble.
- (obsolete)A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
- (Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete)A kind of cart; a tumbril.
- The pupa of a mosquito.
- One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
- (obsolete)A porpoise.
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A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
“The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From tumble + -er.
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