. "A slingshot or slingshut (primarily American), hand catapult (primarily British English), shanghai, or ging (Primarily Australian and New Zealand), bean shooter, or flip, is normally a small hand-powered projectile weapon. Wrist braced slingshots with tubular banding might generically be called wrist rockets, however, the term Wrist-Rocket is a registered trademark of Saunders Archery."@en . . . .