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slingshot
a Y-shaped stick or strong wire with an elastic strip between the prongs for propelling stones, etc.: Slingshots were banned at school. Compare dong-eye, ging, gonk, shanghai.
Contributor's comments: [Coffs Harbour informant] They were called shanghais when I used them.
Contributor's comments: The word slingshot is also used in Melbourne.
Contributor's comments: Shanghai was always the word for sling shot in Broken Hill in 50's 60's.
Contributor's comments: [Riverina informant] Have always known it as "shanghai," and nicknamed as "gingy". To us, a "slingshot " was a long piece of string or rubber, with a pouch usually the tongue of an old shoe - the slingshot was whirled around the head and "flicked", as in David and Goliath!!