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"word": "spinner knob"
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"word": "spinner wheel"
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"word": "steering wheel spinner"
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"text": "I got a four on the spinner and moved my counter forward four spaces on the board.",
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"The coin thrower in a game of two-up."
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"ref": "2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, Lulu.com, page 293",
"text": "Now, Cher was a spinner. Spinner is slang for a petite “chez chez la femme” who loved to assume the dominate sexual position on top. In other words, one could take a spinner and turn her around rapidly thus creating a circular motion and a geometrically induced orgasm.",
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"ref": "2009, K.R. Blevins, T.J. Holt, “Examining the virtual subculture of johns”, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, volume 38, number 5, Sage Publications",
"text": "For example, some johns used the term spinner to refer a petite female. This was exemplified by an exchange in the Dayton forum where individuals discussed the meaning of the term spinner:\nPurplehead: I picked up what looked to be a young thin WSW just south of McDs … She looked really good, about 100 lbs, and very cute, dark hair … a definite spinner..",
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"ref": "2012, Amy Sohn, Motherland, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 112",
"text": "He hadn't dated any Asian girls at Princeton, even though there were tons of them. They tended to be petite, and he wasn't into little girls, \"spinners,\" as Andy called them.",
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"ref": "2014, Tessa Bailey, Staking His Claim, Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing",
"text": "The girl peeking up at him under strawberry[-]blond curls was what men commonly referred to as a “spinner.” Petite, passionate, and pliable...one you could switch into a different sexual position without removing yourself from her heat.\n[…]\n\"I'm going to fuck my little spinner now. She's had it too easy so far.\"",
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"ref": "2016, LR Penn, The Syzygy, Lulu.com, pages 204–205",
"text": "[…] petite women, whom he called 'spinners,' because, in comparison to 'heifers,' they are far more manageable.”",
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"(often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted."
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"(fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks."
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"ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 289",
"text": "Should she kill this magnetic spider, and so end its baleful influence? Incentively the trees hissed 'Yes, yes.' Motioning for them to be silent, she steadily watched the insidious spinner, now as if divining her purpose, merely an indrawn inert black speck but acutely watching her.",
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