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Sailor meets short goofy swinger (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tarzan

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'swinger' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'sailor meets short goofy' is the wordplay.
'sailor meets' becomes 'tar' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'goofy' becomes 'zany' (synonyms).
'zany' with its final letter taken away is 'zan'.
'tar'+'zan'='TARZAN'

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(Other definitions for tarzan that I've seen before include "Fictitious jungle hero" , "Lord of the Jungle" , "Fiction's Lord of the Apes" , "Earl of Greystoke" , "E. R. Burroughs' hero" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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