Gainer

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. One who gains a profit or advantage.
3. One who puts on weight.
4. A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
   slang

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Examples

“… it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make⟳ the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.”

“Let⟳ every youth take⟳ a leaf out of my book and make⟳ it a point⟳ to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like⟳ me he is sure to be a gainer in the end⟳.”

“Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come⟳ to their senses and agreed to do what they might have⟳ done at the start⟳; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares.”

“I tried a full gainer with a twist⟳, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.”

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