tumbler

Definition

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.

Etymology

From tumble + -er.

Example Sentences

• "[…] 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."
• "I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him."

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