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Meaning of merry-go-whirl | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Synonym of merry-go-round.

rare

Examples

“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 ... 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.”
“... mass communications route in a merry-go-whirl of “blood, sweat and not-always-pear-shaped tones." Completely student operated by Benson's junior and senior boys ...”
“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!”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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