gainer
/ˈɡeɪnɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
Slang
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "… it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress."
- "Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end."
- "Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come to their senses and agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares."
- "I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs."
- "Wiener went up so fast it did a gainer."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡeɪnɚ/
- British English: /ˈɡeɪnə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
hard gainer
mass gainer
weight gainer
back gainer sports
full gainer sports
half gainer sports
reverse gainer sports