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backstroker

noun

Etymology

From backstroke + -er.

  1. derived from *streyg-✻ — “to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”
  2. inherited from *straikaz✻ — “stroke”
  3. inherited from *straik✻
  4. inherited from strāc
  5. inherited from strok
  6. compounded as backstroke — “back + stroke”
  7. suffixed as backstroker — “backstroke + er”

Definitions

  1. A swimmer who uses the style backstroke

    • I swam differently from the other backstrokers," he says. "
    • Matt Grevers was struggling to keep his head above water in a deep pool of backstrokers when a coach from the Netherlands offered him a preserver.

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