transfixer

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English

Etymology

From transfix +‎ -er.

Noun

transfixer (plural transfixers)

  1. Something that transfixes.
    • 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
      When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement. To be stuck by that label, it seemed to me, would mean having to live my life as a case history in a medical text book.