a shot from a handheld catapult:you’ll get whizzed out the window like a slingshot
2 [mass noun, often as modifier] 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
verb (slingshots, slingshotting; past and past participle slingshot or slingshotted)
forcefully accelerate through the effect of gravity: [no object]:the car would hit the first dip, then slingshot off the second rise
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Definition of slingshot in the US English dictionary
