"merry-go-whirl" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: merry-go-whirls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} merry-go-whirl (plural merry-go-whirls)
  1. (rare) Synonym of merry-go-round Tags: rare Categories (topical): Amusement rides Synonyms: merry-go-round [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-merry-go-whirl-en-noun-Odlv16HE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "year unknown, Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Works, Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for the Year Ending December 31, ... to the City Council of the City of Chicago\n... the playground repairmen. This apparatus consisted of athletic slides, swing sets, baby chair swing sets, see-saws, giant stride ladders, merry-go-whirls, and horizontal ladders."
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          "ref": "1999, Mona the Vampire, \"Von Kreepsula Runs Amok\" (season 1, episode 2a)",
          "text": "Mona: Meanwhile, I was confronting Von Kreepsula. In the first stage of our duel, we did battle on the monkey bars of doom! Then we exchanged vampire blasts on the swing sets of chaos! Then we tried to outlast each other on the merry-go-whirl of havoc!"
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