someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
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someone who dives (into water)
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hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
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mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
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Plunger \Plun"ger\, n. 1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator. [Cant]
4. (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. --Knight.
5. (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
{Plunger bucket}, a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
{Plunger pole}, the pump rod of a pumping engine.
{Plunger pump}, a pump, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double-acting
The addict slips the needle into his scarred arm and drives down the plunger, or flares a crack-filled pipe and inhales the heated vapor.
The number of seconds the plunger takes to reach the bottom of the tube is the Hagberg reading for that sample.
The streets are all banged up," she said as she leaned on her plunger.
It won't fit in a doctor's bag but the lowly household toilet plunger has proved its medical mettle.
The bomb was connected with electrical cable to a plunger two blocks away, the spokeswoman said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Marsalis' dynamics were subtle and brilliant, from a light line ending in a growl to a plunger mute line melting into honey.
Oxford told sheriff's deputies she unzipped the brown teddy's back to see what was wrong, and pulled out a bag with a syringe, a broken plunger, a bottle cap fashioned into a drug cooker, and the residue of an unknown drug.
They have a bow and arrow with a plunger at the end, and she's learned to do that." Mrs. Bower has been told it will be at least six months before Erin starts using her artificial hand with the same confidence and reflexes as the old one.
We need to learn that it's OK not to drink, and it's OK to put down intoxication." Tough talk from a guy who once spent his weekends drinking Jim Beam out of a toilet plunger.
During his test, Ryder said, the button and the plunger of the switch slipped by each other, meaning they didn't make contact.