gainer
IPA: gˈeɪnɝ
noun
- One who gains a profit or advantage.
- One who puts on weight.
- (sports, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
- A surname.
Examples of "gainer" in Sentences
- It was also the weeks top digital gainer.
- He is the best ground gainer of the line men.
- In the end, the customers were the big gainers.
- Gainer remained chair of the board for six years.
- Jim Bertlesen was the team's lead ground gainer in 1971.
- The ultimate gainers by the confiscation were the nobles.
- Gainer retired from the Legislature at dissolution in 1967.
- He was defeated in a hotly contested fight by Frank Gainer.
- A reverse gainer is an acrobatic move that originated in Tricking.
- An Encourager is the counterpart to a gainer and somewhat similar to a feeder.