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Slingshot vs Slingshoot - What's the difference?

slingshot | slingshoot |

As verbs the difference between slingshot and slingshoot

is that slingshot is to move in a manner resembling a slingshot while slingshoot is (informal|rare) propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.

As a noun slingshot

is a y-shaped stick with an elastic band between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.

slingshot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Y-shaped stick with an elastic band between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.

    • Synonyms

    * bean shooter * catapult (UK) * flip * hand catapult * shanghai (Australia and New Zealand)

    Verb

    (slingshott)
  • To move in a manner resembling a slingshot.
  • Especially, to use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.

    • See also

    * gravity assist

    slingshoot

    English

    Verb

  • (informal, rare) Propel or launch with or as if with a slingshot.
  • * 1959 : Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories , page 35 (Houghton Mifflin)
    • I did not like him and at times had the urge to yank back on his armbands and slingshoot him out past Otto and the lions into the street.
  • * 1994 : Jose Maria Lacambra, Rising Sun Blinking: A Young Boy’s Memoirs of the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines , page 11 (Sinag-tala Publishers; ISBN 9711172267, 9789711172268)
    • I was always worried about Jesus’ harebrained schemes; something always seemed to go awry with them. Like the time he suggested we slingshoot a beehive off of a tree in his backyard.