lefty

English - Turkish

Definition of lefty in English Turkish dictionary: solda; dili solcu veya solak kimse; {s} İng., k.dili. solcu

English - English

Definition of lefty in English English dictionary: disapproval If you refer to someone as a lefty, you mean that they have socialist beliefs. a large group of students and trendy lefties; {i} left-handed person, one who prefers to use the left hand; One who is left-handed; A lefty is someone, especially a sports player, who is left-handed; with the left hand; a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; "their pitcher was a southpaw"; {s} preferring to use the left hand; a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand
Lefty Frizzell: orig. William Orville Frizzell born March 31, 1928, Corsicana, Texas, U.S. died July 19, 1975, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. singer and songwriter. He was a fan of Jimmie Rodgers from childhood. Also a semiprofessional boxer (the source of his nickname), Frizzell sang in honky-tonks and on radio in the Southwest and had his first hit with "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time" (1950). He had several hits over the next two years, including "Always Late (with Your Kisses)," but his last and biggest hit was "Saginaw, Michigan" (1963)
loony lefty: a member of the loony left
This put the “conservative” Cheney in the same camp as looney lefties like former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, whose opposition to the Iraq sanctions derived from their own peculiar “good versus evil” take on US-Iraq relations.
leftie: another spelling of lefty
lefties: plural of lefty